Hunting Mushrooms, and What Makes Some Glow in the Dark

madLyfe · Apr 28, 2017

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/04/27/science/glow-in-the-dark-mushrooms-bioluminescence.html

PISGAH NATIONAL FOREST, N.C. — Here’s what I was told: Get away from the city, go during a new moon and keep my flashlight off. When the sky faded black enough to spot stars twinkling, I’d be able to see mushrooms glowing.

There are about 100,000 species of fungi, but only about 80 of them bioluminesce, or glow in the dark. They pop up in tropical and temperate forests in the Americas, Japan, Southeast Asia, Australia and South Africa.
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