Foxfire (bioluminescence)
- Foxfire (bioluminescence)
Foxfire is the term for the bioluminescence created in the right conditions by a few species of fungi that decay wood. The luminescence is often attributed to members of the genus "Armillaria", the Honey mushroom, though others are reported, and as many as 40 individual species have been identified. On the suggestion of Benjamin Franklin it was used for light in the "Turtle", an early submarine.In the novel "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain, the characters of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer use foxfire as a source of light in order to dig a tunnel.
ee also
*Firefox
External links
* [http://www.bio.net/bionet/mm/mycology/1998-December/007011.html Some legends about foxfire]
* [http://inamidst.com/alp/foxfire Foxfire]
* [http://plone.urbanforestrysouth.org/Resources/Library/Citation.2004-07-16.2350 Foxfire: Bioluminescence in the Forest] and the [http://plone.urbanforestrysouth.org/Resources/Library/Citation.2004-07-16.2350/file_name/ pdf file] by Dr. Kim D. Coder, University of Georgia 8/99
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