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Glow-in-the-Dark Mushrooms

Posted October 09, 2009 9:42 AM

From Boing Boing:

Biologists have newly identified seven mushroom species that glow-in-the-dark. (The mushrooms may look psychedelic, but they are not in the psilocybe genus.) San Francisco State University biologist Dennis Desjardin found the glowing fungi in Belize, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Japan, Malaysia and Puerto Rico.

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Re: Glow-in-the-Dark Mushrooms

10/10/2009 8:16 PM

There is certainly at least one variety of glow in the dark fungus. I have seen this as a kid while camping out. It was growing on some old trees in the Troy NY area.
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