DSC_0792 Candlesnuff fungus (Xylaria hypoxylon) a bioluminescent fungi, and one of the last fungi to attack rotting wood. Growing here around the base of the trunk of a Peppermint gum. Although it is bioluminescent, you almost need 'night vision goggles' to see the light, formed as the phosphorus accumulated within the mycelium reacts with oxygen and other chemicals in the fungus. Dunedin *
DSC_0790 Candlesnuff fungus (Xylaria hypoxylon) a bioluminescent fungi, and one of the last fungi to attack rotting wood. Growing here around the base of the trunk of a Peppermint gum. Although it is bioluminescent, you almost need 'night vision goggles' to see the light, formed as the phosphorus accumulated within the mycelium reacts with oxygen and other chemicals in the fungus. Dunedin *
DSC_9159 Green muscardine fungus (Metarhizium frigidum) infecting a Wellington tree weta (Hemideina crassidens). These well-known entomopathogenic fungi are present in soils around the world, and have been be used as bio-control agents in agriculture, against soil dwelling insects. Denniston Plateau *
