Thank you! There is nothing better than seeing them in real life.

I thought i ate the wrong one and was seeing things.

Grai Joseph ya I see that too

Damn fairies - always up to mischief!

They don't mind those glow in the dark toxins

Made me rewind, damn, they're fast.

Thanks! That was a good year for mushrooms, I will be on the lookout for more this summer :)

Great! Thanks for sharing :)

Thanks. I found these Jack O'Lanterns growing on a trail, there could have been rotten tree roots under the soil perhaps, but location is often an unreliable factor. The gills are, I think, the best way to ID them.

Yes, but that doesn't always hold true because today when Jeepin' there was a cluster of Jack o'lanterns right in the middle of a totally dirt trail. It didn't appear to have any old wood there because it has been a jeep trail for about 20 years.

Glad I could help! Tis the season, I just saw a huge cluster of Jack'o'lanterns the other day.

I just found so of these today & was hoping he would mention in the video - what intrigued me as much was the smell - I couldn't quite place it - thought sort of citrusy - but I LOVED the smell. Luckily - I do not eat mushrooms - so glad I was not tempted. Also read that while they are poisonous - they have some cancer killing qualities!

Jack O'Lanterns are such an incredible orange color, too bad they are poisonous. Chanterelles are orange too but more of a yellow-orange. I did try to check if the gills glowed in the dark, but I didn't see anything.

Cool! Thanks for sharing :) Some people say these only grow on stumps, but as I'm sure you know, they can pop up almost anywhere!

I love seeing them, they get pretty big and soooooo orange!

Smithsonian Handbooks

My pleasure :)

Happy to help :)

Central Minnesota. I think these grow all over North America.

These are a perfect looking mushroom, too bad they are poisonous. Have you ever seen the kind that grow in fairy circles? if not you should look it up online they are strangely beautiful.

We have tiny ones in England that grow in circles. I love mushrooms so much I made some mushroom people sculptures...I could make a video of them. 🍄

I don't know about the Jack O'Lantern, but the Common Chanterelle does grow in Germany, thats the one you want anyways, you may know it as Pfifferlinge.

Give it a Grow -- Thank you very much 😘. I think, I know them. The Pfifferlinge. Can I find them now in September? We have only needle forest here.

It is just past peak here, but there could still be some out there. According to my field guide they are "mycorrhizal with spruce and pine, also with deciduous trees, such as oak".

Thank you!

Glowing in the dusk, a mushroom gleams with glistening mist. A flurry of fluttering wings attracted by strange lights. Dawn breaks and scatters the creatures of the night.

Great, thanks for watching :)

Would love to know as well!!

Thank you!

Its a Smithsonian Field Guide or Handbook

Thanks!

Smithsonian field guide.

Early spring and into summer, depending on the type of mushroom.

It depends on the mushroom. Different ones flush at different times of year. Here in the Rockies, Chanterelle is an early fall mushroom, especially after a rain. Good luck.

Amazing! Thanks for the comment.

mickey swoyer If you pick them do they remain luminescent?

I've no personal experience, but from what I've read they stop glowing shortly after picked.

Thanks!

There was no glow that I could see, I did take some night footage but it didn't make the cut.

Cool!

it is the "Smithsonian Handbook: Mushrooms" one of my favorite field guides.

I never saw any glow either, it could be because I took a cut mushroom and didn't actually re-visit them after dark, but my theory is the after image from staring at a well lit orange mushrooms would look green after turning out the lights.

Just come across this site that refers a very precise - too much precise, if you ask me! - number of glowing mushrooms: 71. If this number is correct is probably the first time a number like that is correct (numbers are very very seldom correct) but it states clearly that there are indeed glowing mushrooms. Which I start to doubt. www.npr.org/2015/03/21/394089178/why-some-mushrooms-glow-in-the-dark en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bioluminescent_fungus_species#Species www.google.pt/search?q=list+of+all+glowing+mushrooms&gws_rd=cr&dcr=0&ei=jH7jWcPoD8fwUqCTpaAJ

Yeah I thought the glow might be to attract "pollinators". I will have to read more, there is a lot to digest there, unless of course they are inedible ;)

been told by people that, you have to get very lucky to see most of the ones that can glow, actually glow and in some cases, its so faint you need a moonless overcast night to notice it with your eyes... i have only seen 1 type glow, and they where grown in a friends closet as a project and a pain to keep alive (had to be kept warm and moist but not to warm or to moist...but it was neat seeing them glow, after the class was over he gave them to the instructor who gave them to a "fungus guy" she knew who was super excited and sent him several grocery bags full of amazing mushrooms he either grew himself or collected himself... it was amazing..even a few of our friends who "hate mushrooms" found they liked some of them... one gal bought 4lb of chanterells at 12/lb before a weekend camping trip we took not all that far up river from here... she cant cook and...so the 2 of us who could ended up cooking a shitload of fried mushrooms in our 2 cast iron pans and a cast iron dutch oven, fried chanterelles and potatoes and some onions......amazing... chanterelle omelletes amazing...the fact she spent that much on them because she discovered she loves wild/uncommon mushrooms.....loved it .... anyway...its rare and sometimes also requires very specific conditions to occur. wouldnt surprise me if it is a way to attract night insects to have them spread spores, also wouldnt shock me if alot of those listed only glow under VERY specific condtions or dont...but....hey....never know some may glow because of the radiation they absorb from the ground...mushrooms are good at that... why the wild pigs around chernobyl are so radioactive. ;)