Rare Luminescent Mushrooms Re-Surface After 170 Years

Meera Dolasia
Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:52:55 -0700

Some enterprising US scientists have re-discovered an elusive glow-in-the dark mushroom that was last seen 171 years ago. English Botanist George Gardner stumbled upon it in 1840, when he noticed some young Brazilian boys playing with a glowing object - Since then, the fungi have been impossible to find.