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Common “Mold” Spores: Ascospores If you’ve ever sent in an air sampling cassette to evaluate your air for mold spores, you’ve seen the term ‘ascospores’ on the report. In the most technical sense, ascospores are spores that are produced from a fruiting body (called an ascomata) and are initially formed within a sac-like structure called an ascus. Each ascus always contains 8 identical ascospores. But what does this really mean? Today, we are taking a brief dive into the world of classifying fungi and going to do an overview of the Ascomycetes fungi, the largest and broadest group of fungi Read more