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Thanks!

There does seem to be an awful lot of blueish ones. You will find some gems.

 

Check trees out too. I have come across quite a few different colors of lichens. I have access to a lichen specialist and she says the ones I have of different colors are indeed different species.

If you find a mushroom scrape away the soil around it and sometimes the whole forest floor is glowing.

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If you find a mushroom scrape away the soil around it and sometimes the whole forest floor is glowing.

 

Good idea! Thanks for reminding us about the mycelium.

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Likely Russula emetica.

Known as the Sickener, this fabulous specimen will cause major stomach cramps and ultimately hours in the bathroom on the throne if eaten raw. Not fatal unless you already have immune issues.

Under UV it is a particularly loud and amazing looking mushroom from underneath. Topside it's red in visible and blue in UVIVF.

Much rain has brought fresh ones up. I have taken this one before but perhaps it wasn't this fresh. I saw the "glowing" from about 25 ft away. I just duct taped a bunch of Convoy flashlights together and it makes it easy to spot stuff as it is like a regular flashlight. :)

These are tricky to get this fresh and complete as the local slugs chomp on them pretty quickly.

 

 

Visible: Panasonic GH4 unmodified, LED headlamp, 1/50 s @ f/9 ISO 200, No Filters. WB Auto

 

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UVIVF: Panasonic GH4 unmodified, 8 Convoy S2+, 1/30 s @ f/7.1 ISO 200, No Filters. WB Auto

 

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Diptych

 

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That Russula has an amazing and quite beautiful gill fluorescence. The blue edge around that glowing green is so cool.

 

I wonder and ponder and puzzle over this gill fluorescence. Whatever reason do you suppose this has evolved? Or is is simply part of the chemistry of some internal mushroom chemical?

 

See also: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/03/150319123956.htm

This is about the bioluminescence (not induced by UV) of some fungi.

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I wonder and ponder and puzzle over this gill fluorescence. Whatever reason do you suppose this has evolved? Or is is simply part of the chemistry of some internal mushroom chemical?

The blue fluorescing part is also brighter in the visible light photo. It may be that *this* is what evolved and the fluorescence is just a byproduct of it?

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