PISGAH NATIONAL FOREST, N.C. — They said 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 ...

Deep within the world’s forests, nature hides one of its most mesmerising spectacles, mushrooms that glow in the dark. These ...

Anna (Norris) Mitchell is a writer, editor, and photographer who loves capturing nature through her camera lens. Panellus stipticus is one of the brightest-glowing bioluminescent mushrooms on Earth.

As if teensy night-lights were dangling from tree trunks and branches, glow-in-the-dark mushrooms illuminate the forests across the globe. Now, scientists have discovered several species of such ...

At first glance you might not notice the light green glow appearing between the mushrooms' gills in the dead of night. But soon your eyes adjust and you can spot it: bioluminescent fungi growing in a ...

Bioluminescence is a chemical process where living organisms generate light. Jellyfish, fireflies, fungi, and more are all known to emit their very own glow. The Greek philosopher Aristotle observed ...

Why on earth would a mushroom glow at night? The existence of bioluminescent mushrooms has been noted since the time of the ancient Greeks, but less is known is about why a small percentage of fungi ...

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 ...

If you think you see a glowing mushroom, you might not be having a psychedelic hallucination. Some mushrooms indeed are bioluminescent, including one that sprouts among decaying leaves at the base of ...

A new variety of mushroom has been discovered in Northeast India’s Meghalaya state. Nearly 600 varieties of a bioluminescent mushroom have been found in the jungles of Meghalaya and because of its ...

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