They grow from spores instead of seeds. Some plants can also reproduce without an egg cell being fertilised to produce a seed. Instead, these plants produce an identical copy of themselves.

This is neither an award nor a sculpture. It’s the fruiting body of a slime mold – a structure that helps the slime mold reproduce and spread. Fruiting bodies contain spores that are released into the ...

Some fungi are able to reproduce both sexually and asexually. Fungi reproduce using spores which they release into the environment. A new fungus will grow from the spore. The Coprinus cinereus ...

Related: How do plants with seedless fruit reproduce? Some plants — including mosses, algae and ferns — continue to use spores, rather than seeds, to reproduce, according to a 2019 article in ...