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Glowing mushrooms in Bamboo Collection of XTBG
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Update time: 2013-08-28
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Taylor Lockwood, a mushroom hunter and photographer, came to XTBG in August. He came across glowing mushrooms while walking through the Bamboo Collection of XTBG. Here is the picture.

 

Source: http://www.livescience.com/39105-chinese-fungus-glows-in-the-dark.html

 

Mushrooms of the genus Favolaschia are well known to science,

but scientists didn't realize the species of Favolaschia depicted in the image glows in the dark as it decays.

Credit: Taylor F. Lockwood

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