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Mushrooms Glow In The Dark

Written on August 14, 2007 by KiwiPulse - Posted in Various

With the arrival of Japan’s rainy season, a mysterious type of green, glow-in-the-dark mushroom begins to sprout in Wakayama prefecture. The Mycena lux-coeli mushrooms, known locally as shii no tomobishi-dake (literally, “chinquapin glow mushrooms”), sprout from fallen chinquapin trees. As they grow, a chemical reaction involving luciferin (a light-emitting pigment contained within the mushrooms) occurs, causing them to glow a ghostly green.

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15 Responses so far
  1. johnsonjohn on August 14th, 2007 at 8:41 pm

    wonder what happens if you eat’em ^^

  2. KiwiPulse on August 14th, 2007 at 9:03 pm

    Most mushrooms are poisonous, you can die if you eat those mushrooms. I’ve seen people eat the wrong mushrooms, they look so similar and they died of excessive vomiting and external bleeding. If you are lucky, you can be transformed into Hulk-like lol :D

  3. FLOWERCHILD on August 17th, 2007 at 11:16 am

    PLEASE DONT EAT THE MUSHROOMS,,,,,,UNLESS YOU WANT TO GLOW IN THE DARK,,,,GLOWING IN THE DARK IS NOT GOOOOOOD,,,,,,,,,,,

  4. alan on August 17th, 2007 at 11:54 pm

    mushrooms are a strange form of life. some are deadly poisonous, some are delicious, some are delerius. i love them.

  5. Joel on August 18th, 2007 at 11:17 am

    Cooooool, are they magical in any profound way?

  6. Trevor on August 19th, 2007 at 12:08 am

    From “Mushrooms Demystified” by David Arora: “out of several thousand different kinds of wild mushrooms in North America, only five or six are deadly poisonous”

  7. Daniel on August 19th, 2007 at 4:41 am

    I couldn’t understand some parts of this article o.us poetry, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.

  8. Paul on August 22nd, 2007 at 4:14 pm

    Do they recharge your batteries if you eat them I wonder?

  9. hmmm on August 23rd, 2007 at 10:19 pm

    Well, that’d make for some kick ass glow in the dark piss.

  10. day tripper on August 27th, 2007 at 7:03 am

    If these were the magic kind that would be awesome. And for they guy posting about how few are poisonous… all it takes is one dude, and your liver liquifies and you die a horribly painful death.

  11. Fingel on September 9th, 2007 at 11:35 pm

    “From “Mushrooms Demystified” by David Arora: “out of several thousand different kinds of wild mushrooms in North America, only five or six are deadly poisonous””

    Yea only 5 or 6 are poisonous those 5 or 6 are the most prominent, guess why, because nothing and nobody eats them.

  12. Jane on September 14th, 2007 at 8:43 pm

    i love ur comment ayay

  13. alan on September 20th, 2007 at 5:32 am

    what’s to evolutionary explanation for this phenomenon whats the use

  14. Turkish Seo on February 27th, 2008 at 10:45 am

    i have never seen something like this before…

  15. Ricco on June 15th, 2009 at 4:07 am

    I’d eat ‘em…

    =]

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