Mushrooms Glow In The Dark

   

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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 14 Comments for Mushrooms Glow In The Dark

johnsonjohn
2007-08-14 20:41:07

wonder what happens if you eat’em ^^

 
2007-08-14 21:03:15

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

 
FLOWERCHILD
2007-08-17 11:16:46

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

JaneSubscribed to comments via email
2007-09-14 20:43:01

i love ur comment ayay

 
 
2007-08-17 23:54:05

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

 
2007-08-18 11:17:45

Cooooool, are they magical in any profound way?

 
Trevor
2007-08-19 00:08:04

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”

 
2007-08-19 04:41:54

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.

 
Paul
2007-08-22 16:14:22

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

 
hmmm
2007-08-23 22:19:55

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

 
day tripper
2007-08-27 07:03:28

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.

 
Fingel
2007-09-09 23:35:57

“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.

 
alanSubscribed to comments via email
2007-09-20 05:32:57

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

 
2008-02-27 10:45:18

i have never seen something like this before…

 
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