Path 1: When the fruiting body is above ground and senses the light, the spores on the asci are released and germinated. Once the fungi has germinated itself through asexual reproduction the primary mycelia then produces a sclerotium which in turn produces the fruiting body of the morel (the edible part) which will then repeat the process. However, if conditions become suitable for sexual reproduction, the sclerotium can then convert back to the primary mycelia to go through the process of plasogamy.

Path 2: This path starts out the same way as path 1, but it is quite different. Once the germinated spores become the primary mycelia, they begin the process or plasmogamy with another morel's primary mycelia. Plasmogamy is the sexual reproductive cycle in which the cytoplasm of two parent mycelia fuse together while at the same time not fusing the nuclei. When plasmogamy occurs, it forms a secondary mycelium which contains dikaryotic (meaning two nuclei) cells. The secondary mycelium then produces a sclerotium which in turn using carpogenic germination produces the fruiting body of the morel which then will repeat the process once again. However, if the correct conditions don't occur for the fungi to produce a fruiting body above ground, the sclerotium could go through the process of myceliogenic germination. This process causes the hypae to grow towards the roots of the host.

As seen above, the fruiting body contains asci the houses the spores. To the right is a picture of the spores on the asci of the morel mushroom. When the conditions are right, the spores from the asci are released to be germinated.