Glow-in-the-Dark Mushrooms Creeping Across New Hampshire Just in Time for Halloween

Now that the spooky season is right around the corner, you may want to keep your eyes peeled for natural spookiness in the woods of New Hampshire!

Mother Nature is decorating the forests with glow in the dark mushrooms and we’re into it.

Check it out, there are these intense pumpkin-colored mushrooms and they’re real. Did you know this? Many call these magical mushrooms, Jack-O-Lantern mushrooms but their scientific name is Omphalotus illudens. 

This fungi is just orange like a perfect fall pumpkin, but they glow green! 

How does it glow?  

Well, it’s all thanks to a phenomenon called bioluminescence. Just imagine taking a scary walk with your friends in the woods and coming upon a faint greenish light on the ground. You go to inspect and come across a cluster of glowing mushrooms!  

Glowing Jack-O'-Lantern Mushrooms Are Lighting Up the Woods in New Hampshire

So creepy. So magical, all at once.  

Where are they found? All throughout the Northeast, but specifically in Deering, New Hampshire.

Check out this amazing Stone Age YouTube video of these glowing mushrooms!

You can find them in New Hampshire mid-summer through the late fall.

They have these ‘gills” that run down the stalk of the tree that give them a really bizarre and fun look, but don’t be fooled, they are super poisonous.

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It’s almost like the prettier the plant or mushroom, the more dangerous it is! Sometimes folks mistake Jack-O-Lantern mushrooms for edible chanterelles, so definitely don’t eat them!  

A fun trick could be picking one, grabbing aluminum foil, wrapping it up and putting it somewhere dark, and witness the perfectly faint glow.  

Mother nature is awesome.  

Have you seen any glow in the dark mushrooms? Let us know! 

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