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![Figure][1] CREDIT: CASSIUS V. STEVANI No, you're not hallucinating: Those mushrooms are glowing. While mushroom-hunting at night in a Brazilian forest, mycologist Dennis Desjardin of San Francisco State University and colleagues discovered Mycena luxaeterna growing on sticks. Luminescent chemicals similar to those in fireflies produce the fungus's constant glow—possibly to attract insects to spread spores or eat harmful bugs, Desjardin says. Mycologists have previously identified 64 luminous species from 16 different lineages, suggesting that either luminescence evolved multiple times or most species gradually lost the glow. The scientists describe the new fungus and six others online this month in Mycologia . [1]: pending:yes
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