del Posted May 20, 2010 Hi, first post, I think I got the hang of it. here are some long exposure pics I took of the fungus glowing at night. Thought you guys may apreciate them. I included one with a flash. Never seen so manny around the northern outskirts of Sydney where I live. Every single stump! (not quite but I am prone to exageration) Great forum by the way have learnt alot! cheers del Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sidewayschef Posted May 20, 2010 Hell yeah Glow in the dark Shrooms Nice Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vual Posted May 20, 2010 Wow very awsome how they glow like that what do you mean by long exposure shots? I really love bioluminescence plants such a fantastic phenomena by nature i wonder why nature intended for it to glow. Thanks for posting. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tripsis Posted May 20, 2010 Nice going mate! Yeah, there's a lot of them around there at the moment. Some big clusters too. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PD. Posted May 20, 2010 Welcome del. nice shots! Have only got one lot of pics of this mushroom, cam was left for around 7 or 8 hours to get a good shot. Awesome fungi. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
del Posted May 20, 2010 thanks,I signed up ages ago but got lazy. The longest shutter speed on the camera I used is only 30 seconds. so i had to fix the contrast up a bit. but they really do glow increadibly bright in the bush away from any light source. The grubs that feed on these are huge!>3cm! much bigger than those tiny ones that we share our subs with .I assumed that because they feed on nothing but the glowing fungi, they would glow themselves, but they dont. interesting. Shame these are not edible!because I really want to eat some Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
del Posted May 20, 2010 Here is a few more pics you guys might like damn I miss Lismore!!! These guys look so promising from a distance, all I have ever found to photograph in summer near Syd Took this photo just before the rain two days ago. So dry yet still a few tough guys note the split cap! its a diferent story now though. Gota love that rain Cheers del Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
domeboy Posted May 26, 2010 Wow very awsome how they glow like that what do you mean by long exposure shots? I really love bioluminescence plants such a fantastic phenomena by nature i wonder why nature intended for it to glow. Thanks for posting. The current theory on the reason for the bioluminescence (as far as I know), is to attract predators to eat it and spread all its spores around. The enzyme that produces the glowing is called luciferase. More can be found about it on wiki: Luciferase (Wiki) A fantastic little mushroom! If anyone is interested in glowing shrooms, you should also check out the other great Aussie: Mycena chlorophanos Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
del Posted May 26, 2010 Wow!! that is such a great photo, it would have required alot of patience. thanks for posting, dose anyone see these often? del Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Magicdirt Posted May 26, 2010 (edited) They are some amazing pics. The luminescent ones make the cubes and subs look mundane. You have to wonder how they have or why they evolved this feature. Is it protective or is it reproductive ie attracts some night feeder to spread the spores ? Awesome! Edited May 26, 2010 by Magicdirt Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sonny Jim Posted May 29, 2010 Awesome del!!!! I have only ever seen pics of the glow in the dark mushrooms. I would love to see some for real. They must look bloody awesome in the bush at night, especial if there were a lot of them around. The second picture you posted in post number 7, look exactly like the "look a likes" I used to find out past Windsor and Wisemans ferry. They were summertime dung lovers. I would find the "look a likes" in patches along side of what I think were Panaeolus cyanescens. My reckless garden gnome would always stow away in the boot of my car, escape and then run off and eat the inky blue staining ones. My gnome says they were potent psilocybes. Silly garden gnome, he has no respect for the well thought out and helpful laws which protect us from these dangerous hallucinogenic mushrooms. I tried to tell him but you know how gnomes are... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tripsis Posted May 29, 2010 (edited) That photo of Mycena chlorophanos must have been photoshopped. The colours are wrong. They should be bioluminescing a green colour, much like the O. nidiformis pictured, not a blue colour like you would see in bioluminescent dinoflagellates. Edit: well it seems I was both wrong and right... To quote from the Springbrook Research Centre website regarding the image: Digitally enhanced to endeavour to show the true colour of the mushroom light that is more blue than green, however cameras lean more toward green than blue shades when night vision is used. I do doubt it really is that blue though. Edited May 29, 2010 by tripsis Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
