Posts Tagged ‘bioluminescence’
Mushroom photographer Taylor Lockwood has returned from his expedition to Brazil and the Amazon River region. While there he was able to get some great new photographs of interesting mushrooms, including the recently discovered bioluminescent species. He reports that there was quite a bit of of local traffic in the area where these mushrooms are [...]
Tags: Amazon, bioluminescence, Brazil, Mycena, mycoremediation, Pleurotus, Taylor Lockwood
A couple of months ago, I ran across a UK-based website–The Glow Fungi Project. The site and the project is from a company called NIPHT (Novel Imaging and PHotonic Technologies–”nifty” for short) out of Edinburgh, Scotland. The company began offering kits of bioluminescent fungus in 2009 and plans to continue to provide kits for outdoor [...]
Tags: bioluminescence, bioluminescent fungi, fungi kits, Glow Fungi, glowfungi, NIPHT, Panellus stipticus, Patrick Hickey
Word of the discovery and description of seven new species of glow-in-the-dark fungi appeared on Twitter on the same day as it was published (Oct 5, 2009). (If you are not following mycology news on twitter you are missing out. You can start by following MycoRant. If you think twitter is a fad, remember–that’s what [...]
Tags: bioluminescence, Brazil, Mycena
