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[swiss]

Hi to all Biological experts here,

(I majored in Biology at school but I can't imagine what is responsible for this)

My girlfrieds Dad chopped of a rotten oak-tree. Then some hours later (it got dark) we noticed that the rotten oak-chunks were glowing in the dark.

I googled and wikipediaed until my fingers were bleeding but I couldn't get an answer why ? Something in these chunks made them glowing but what ?
I know of Plankton that glows when it dies and some mushrooms do that as well but I am not sure if mushrooms are responsible for it in this case.

Any suggestions anyone ?

[Toxik]

it may be those mushrooms or bacteria and so that cause it to rot.many rotting things glows.(im no expert)

[Xikarita]

I don't know anything about Biology, but it must be the same phenomenon that causes ''lights'' to be seen in cemeteries at night. I think it's because of the substances released during decomposition, or something...

[efthimios]

Or simply radiation.

[Moshchu]

There was similar story in X-files but i dont remember ending

[Tom Henrik]

I would go for glowing mushrooms of the kind that grown on rocks.

Not the mushroom with a stem and a hat, but those green mossy kind ones.

[Lonely Vazdru]

I second Tom. And smurfs are mushroom experts. k:

[chickenman]

if it is radiation you should stay far away from the tree there might be some radiation in the ground.

if it glows blue it is radiation!!

[BeefontheBone]

It's far more likely to be some sort of fungus than radiation - apart from anything else, radiation doesn't glow like that, only in films and cartoons. There are quite a lot of photogenic fungi and so on that could do it.

[chickenman]

@BeefontheBone
it does glow