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Glowing "Ghost" Mushrooms Reappear in Brazil After 170 Years

Posted on 11th Aug 2011 @ 4:51 PM

Glowing "Ghost" Mushrooms Reappear in Brazil After 170 Years

Reposted from Treehugger

Photo: Panellus stipticus, one species of glowing mushrooms (Wiki Commons)

If you think glowing mushrooms are the figment of some trippy imagination, think again. After its initial discovery back in 1840, one of the most bioluminescent species of mushroom known to humans was not seen again until a pair of primatologists recently stumbled upon it in the Brazilian forests.

Known as Neonothopanus gardneri, it's one of the 71 recognized species of bioluminescent mushrooms -- out of 100,000 identified fungi species -- and can grow up to three inches in diameter. Sometimes called "ghost mushrooms" due to their eerie appearance, they are also poisonous to humans, and glow so bright that one can use their green light to read a newspaper in a dark room......