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February 2, 2012

Phil Reeves visits Glow-in-the-Dark mushrooms in Firefly Gully

Posted by Mt Gravatt Environment Group under Bushcare, Forest Fungi, Gilled Fungi, Photography | Tags: BAAM Flora, bioluminescence, Bushcare, Environment, Fauna and Fauna Corridor Assessment, Firefly Gully, fungi, Luminous Mushrooms Mycena lampadis, Phil Reeves, Wildlife corridor |
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Mycena lampadis Luminous Mushroom

I had the pleasure, this week, of introducing our local state member – Phil Reeves MP, to one of the extraordinary and little known features of our unique mountain habitat – Luminous Mushrooms Mycena lampadis.

A lucky photograph, with a torch lighting a snail having a mushroom meal, also caught a group of mushrooms glowing in the dark. I don’t have an identification on snail yet however I will have a look at Semislugs – Family Helicorionidae – thanks to Helen Schwencke, Butterflies & Other Invertebrates Club.

Jon Kloske took some amazing photos like this amazing shot of mushrooms growing in a line on a rotting log over the track.

The mushrooms were first reported in January last year and at the time featured on 612ABC with Kelly Higgins-Devine.

Firefly Gully is one of the wildlife corridors identified in the 2011 Flora, Fauna and Fauna Corridor Assessment, and now being restored by property owners.

April 1, 2011

Kelly explores glowing mushrooms on Mt Gravatt

Posted by Mt Gravatt Environment Group under Bushcare, Forest Fungi, Gilled Fungi | Tags: 612ABC Drive, Bushcare, Butterfly, Echidna, Firefly Gully, Kelly Higgins-Devine, Mimosa Creek, Mt Gravatt Environment Group, Roly Chapman Reserve, species diversity, Wildlive corridor |
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Listen to my interview with Kelly Higgins-Devine: 612ABC Drive.

See our own local Glow-in-the-dark Mushrooms.

January 17, 2011

Glow-in-the-dark Mushrooms

Posted by Mt Gravatt Environment Group under Forest Fungi, Gilled Fungi | Tags: Biodiversity, bioluminescence, Brisbane, Environment, Firefly Gully, forest fungi, glow in dark mushroom, MEG, Mt Gravatt, Mt Gravatt Environment Group, Mycena lampadis Luminous Mushroom, Springbrook Research Centre |
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Mycena lampadis Luminous Mushroom

Fireflies now glow-in-the-dark mushrooms!

Same mushroom under torch light

Carol, who sent the firefly photos, called me late the other night inviting me to see the glow-in-the-dark mushrooms in their gully. Extraordinary, spooky and a very very special experience: walking thought the dark with the only light these amazing fungi.

Seeing these luminous mushrooms during the day they look like just another delicate white fungi.

The Springbrook Research Centre has information on bioluminescence.

The Mountain continues to surprise and delight. Listen to my interview with Kelly Higgins-Devine: 612ABC Drive.

See more of our amazing mushrooms: read my article on Forest Fungi.

June 5, 2010