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fructification

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Fructification \Fruc`ti*fi*ca"tion\, n. [L. fructificatio: cf.
   F. fructification.]
   1. The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of
      fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit;
      fecundation.

            The prevalent fructification of plants. --Sir T.
                                                  Brown.

   2. (Bot.)
      (a) The collective organs by which a plant produces its
          fruit, or seeds, or reproductive spores.
      (b) The process of producing fruit, or seeds, or spores.

Source : WordNet®

fructification
     n 1: the bearing of fruit
     2: organs of fruiting (especially the reproductive parts of
        ferns and mosses)
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