Bio Light

As a person that learns so much through the visual, although I'm not sure if that's just true for everyone, I love National Geographic. I get to travel entire worlds and see life as I have not imagined it.

Photograph by Taylor F. Lockwood

Brazil—Dozens of bioluminescent mushrooms sprout on a dead log, green stems glowing in the light of a full moon. This species—Mycena lucentipes—grows on the wood of flowering trees in the rain forests of Brazil and Puerto Rico. Its edibility is unknown.