{"id":203459,"date":"2025-01-09T18:08:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T00:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/artists-find-a-green-glowing-mushroom-in-a-swiss-forest"},"modified":"2025-01-09T18:08:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T00:08:05","slug":"artists-find-a-green-glowing-mushroom-in-a-swiss-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/artists-find-a-green-glowing-mushroom-in-a-swiss-forest","title":{"rendered":"Artists find a green, glowing mushroom in a Swiss forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/artists-find-a-green-glowing-mushroom-in-a-swiss-forest2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNowadays we always have our mobile phones or a flashlight, but to see bioluminescence in the forest, it has to be pitch black,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsl.ch\/en\/news\/glowing-mushrooms-an-intrigue-for-artists-and-scientists-alike\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said Rudolf<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They collected some samples of the glowing specimen, originally thinking it was a known bioluminescent species called <em>Mycena haematopus<\/em>. In their well-lit studio, the artists realized that it was another species called the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inaturalist.org\/taxa\/566411-Mycena-crocata\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">saffron drop bonnet mushroom (<em>Mycena crocata<\/em>)<\/a>. While this mushroom is known for its saffron-coloured milk, it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsl.ch\/en\/news\/glowing-mushrooms-an-intrigue-for-artists-and-scientists-alike\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">had not previously been described as bioluminescent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[ Related: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/environment\/fungi-thoughts\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>A simple experiment revealed the complex \u2018thoughts\u2019 of fungi<\/strong><\/a><strong>. ]<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNowadays we always have our mobile phones or a flashlight, but to see bioluminescence in the forest, it has to be pitch black,\u201d said Rudolf. They collected some samples of the glowing specimen, originally thinking it was a known bioluminescent species called Mycena haematopus. In their well-lit studio, the artists realized that it was another [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}