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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

fructification

noun

1: the bearing of fruit

2: organs of fruiting (especially the reproductive parts of ferns and mosses)

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Fructification \Fruc'ti*fi*ca"tion\, noun [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.