Ghost mushrooms are lighting up forests on the New South Wales south coast at night. It's that time of year when glowing fungi are on full display for photographers brave enough to wander in the pitch-black to find them in forests on the New South Wales south coast. During the daytime, the bioluminescent fungi look like an average mushroom. But at night, they emit an unusual glow.
Why the fungi glow is still a mystery - a Brazilian study theorised that the light from the mushrooms was used to attract insects, but researchers from South Australia have hypothesised that the glow could be a by-product of metabolism.
You would not catch Stalker out in the Aussie forest at night with all the antipodean bugs and arachnids that might be crawling all over ya!
