fructification

The ascigerous fructification of lichens, forming masses of various shapes.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

The larger species assumed a complexity in the structure of their stems unknown in their modern congeners, and enabling them to grow to a great height;31 but their foliage and fructification were not correspondingly advanced.

From The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants by Sir J. William Dawson

Most numerous was Gigartina radula, just in a state of fructification.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Karl Ritter von Scherzer

Small plant of Chondrus crispus, or Carrageen Moss, reduced in size, in fruit; the spots represent the fructification, consisting of numerous tetraspores in bunches in the substance of the plant.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray

With these and reasonable perseverance the structure of the flowers and fructification of most phanerogamous plants and Ferns can be made out.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray