A bioluminescent mushroom that was first found in 1840 and later forgotten has been rediscovered and reclassified by a team at San Francisco State University.
British botanist George Gardner first described the glowing mushroom — which shines so brightly that you can read by it — on a trip to Brazil in 1840. He sent it to the Kew Herbarium where it was named agaricus gardneri. The species was not seen again until 2009. Now a team led by Dennis Desjardin have collected new samples of the forgotten mushroom and reclassified it as neonothopanus gardneri after careful examination of the mushroom’s anatomy, physiology and genetic pedigree. The team hopes that by studying the Brazilian mushroom and its other bioluminescent cousins, they will be able to shed light on how and why some fungi glow — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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