Bioluminescent Mushrooms

“How and why did luminescence evolve in fungi?” is the question being asked by researchers from the University of São Paulo, San Francisco State University in California and Brazil's Institute of Botany

New Glowing Mushrooms Found in Brazil, a photo gallery and article on National Geographic News

Laboratório de Bioluminescência de Fungos, the lab of Cassius Stevani.

Photographs of Bioluminescent Fungi

Thanks to Stannous F for submitting the link to me!

Posted by Daniel Mosquin at 3:18 PM on November 14, 2006

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