This Mushroom Glows in the Dark and may be a cure for this...

This video is all about the amazing Jack O' Lantern mushrooms and how and why they might glow. If you already know about this mushroom you might also be surprised and the chemistry of the toxins and how they're being used for medicines in the future.
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[@andybankston8413]

Was harvesting a bunch of chanterelles here in Texas the other day and ran into a couple of large patches of Jacks. If you’re inexperienced I guess you could confuse them, chanterelles rarely grow in large clusters and here in Texas the chanterelles have a very distinct peach / apricot smell to them, have never picked them anywhere else so I don’t know if that’s true for everywhere else. We also have the beautiful and delicious Texanesis Chanterelles which are a beautiful pink / orange / red color. Went back that night to see the Jacks glow, it was very faint but it was there. Mycology is amazing and there’s so much to learn. When I’m foraging / harvesting the feeling I can best describe it as is the feeling you got as a child when it was time to hunt Easter eggs. Love me some deep fried Chicken of the Woods too

[@LazySillyDog]

One time I had someone say "Hey I found a patch of chicken of the woods over there!" I go uh... OK, it shouldn't be growing out of the lawn tho I walk over and it's a huge patch of Jack's, so I told him "What?! But it looks just like chicken of the woods?" 😑

[@InviableTrader]

Yeah I’m Georgia where I live you have to be careful late in the season. These jacks start showing up the moment you sense the cold coming in.

[@MushroomMagpie]

I have seen mycelium glowing blue in disturbed roots in the Canadian boreal. I have no idea what fungus they were from but it was a most subterranean beautiful insect highway.

[@UntamedScience]

Amazing!!!

[@jefffaircloth8603]

We had a similar experience on the island of Bohol in the Philippines. We were on a rainforest night hike looking for Tarsiers when the guide told us to turn off our lights. As our eyes adjusted you could see every decaying piece of wood on the forest floor glowing the most beautiful pale blue.

[@truethought369]

This is what I call real medicine, nature has always been there for the benefit of all life. It is a compliment, Thank You.

[@JohnLocke1776]

What?! You sound like a terrorist for not supporting the Big Pharma Industry Complex! Jk 😂

[@ThomasConover]

Pfizer jungle dozers entered chat:

[@StefanBurns]

What a find! Thanks Rob for continuing to educate everyone on our fungal friends! 🍄

[@UntamedScience]

Right!? Thanks Stefan. Love what you're doing these days too on the EDU front! :)

[@Symirai]

I just love everything that glows in the dark 😃 I never knew there was a mushroom that glowed to. I always heard about the glowing seas 😅

[@melaniereblin6856]

I love seeing these at my work - we're a nature preserve south of Chicago. They look so pretty and cheery! Funny how people actually expect them to glow brightly... maybe it's the name 😂

[@UntamedScience]

Very true. It does take some time to let your eyes adjust.

[@jodaddy83rd]

Ive seen them only in the daytime in the bay area in California. Beautiful mushrooms ❤

[@pouyapadiav7121]

Good source of knowledge. Thanks for sharing.

[@dio.mikota]

your channel is incredible , thank you for spreading these beautiful knowledge 🙏🏽

[@odimarbatista3976]

Very impressed with the chemistry as well as the scientific along with the fungi info. I subscribed.

[@carmenreyes4669]

Thank you for all your knowledge, I appreciate you.

[@outdooradventureswithfayde6832]

Quite the impressive mushroom patch. Fun and interesting video. Enjoyed learning about foxfire and its potential for combating cancer. Have a great weekend!

[@AJScraps]

Loving the unique mushroom content! Happy October! 🙏 🎃 🍄

[@ay7828]

How interesting! Thank you for this great content!

[@UntamedScience]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Kelsey260]

Thank you for your incredible work and dedication!!

[@UntamedScience]

So nice of you

[@jacoblamarre2521]

first season learning mushrooms myself found my first Jacks last week they are beautiful didn't take home to see bioluminescence I should have though.

[@kellyhill4410]

Very interesting. Thanks for the info

[@UntamedScience]

🤓🙏😉

[@stephengarrett8076]

Outstanding! Thank you for your knowledge.

[@UntamedScience]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@NyreeAlana]

Fascinating!!! ❤👏👏👏

[@nathalieu]

Thank you!! That was super helpful!! 🙂

[@Davewheelz]

They're on x

[@PileofKyle]

Awesome vid 😊

[@UntamedScience]

Thanks 😁

[@MissesWitch]

Jack o Lantern is really the best name you could give to this mushroom!

[@Pollo.Rosado]

Wow, these are incredible! Thanks for shedding "light" on this. While I haven't come across them before, their appearance does remind me of chanterelles yes. However, seeing them in large clusters is a giveaway that they're not edible chanterelles.

[@UntamedScience]

Yes, the growth habit is one key giveaway!

[@jacoblamarre2521]

@@UntamedScienceI think the interior is a better differentiating feature for newer folks since chanterelles interior should be all white while the jack will be orange.

[@bustinbass78]

I have never seen the fruiting bodies. In Southern Iowa when ponds or such are built the glowing mycelium can be seen glowing on tree roots. I have only seen twice in 40yrs.

[@JoshLloydMedia]

very interesting!

[@GildedWarrior331]

I luv this channel

[@jefffaircloth8603]

I've taken photos of these before. Very, very dim to the eye but pretty amazing in time-lapse photos.

[@UntamedScience]

Yes they are!

[@amazonianchild]

Cool thanks man

[@Katie-qs4sf]

I came across one at work a few months back. (Western North Carolina) in a landscaped mulch pile that had rotten tree roots sticking out of the ground. It was right in the path employees walk to get to the back entrance but for weeks I was the only one that noticed it! I just let it be to grow until a different manager noticed and destroyed it. 😕 I got off around 12 to 1 am and loved seeing the glow.

[@krystle4248]

New sub. ❤

[@allanperryman388]

First-time watcher . Very informative. I am very interested in Mushrooms. Thanks

[@EtukEsther]

I'll refer you to and online store where I got my own psychedelics and microdosing stuff very good reliable vendor

[@EtukEsther]

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[@EtukEsther]

Mycopete..,,,,,,, //:::'' ::(--__/?!!

[@SpliffingIda]

love!

[@emilylouden3349]

It’s a beautiful mushroom, found a bunch a month ago, amazing, and chicken is the most delicious I would trade lb for lb for morel

[@UntamedScience]

It's so good isn't it!!! Love that one.

[@emilylouden3349]

@@UntamedScience mmmhmm I found a baby in zone 5 a couple weeks back I could almost cook all of it,, and one a month ago that was almost 8 lbs, and some random chickens in the woods, literally I didn’t think they roamed like that but whatever I fed them some grain and now we’re getting to be buddies

[@stacey7006]

OMG such a great size patch to find. It hasn't rained here in ages😭 we r in drought

[@joshcochran1631]

I found a huge patch on an and around an old dead stump in Erie Pennsylvania

[@ConstipatedAssassin]

My buddy and I found some one time and it was so much fun bringing them home and watching them glow. We took them in the bathroom with the lights off and it took me about 60 seconds for my eyes to adjust before I could see it but it took him like five minutes before he could see it and he didn’t believe me that I could see it. Then we made up a game where one person hid pieces of the mushroom somewhere around the pitch black bathroom and the other person had to find it. It sounds gay af now that I’m typing it but it was fun.

[@MarkxTube]

Dude, love the show! It's time for you to get a UV lamp and head into the woods at night. You'll be surprised!

[@matiasrocco1924]

If you can, you should do more videos with Hazen

[@UntamedScience]

agreed

[@jonathonchadwick8673]

Will you test mushrooms people find?

[@stickerking]

there is also a ringless honeyfungus that looks and grows in similar clustering

[@UntamedScience]

YES. Great point. Ringless honey mushrooms look very similar too!

[@mikemason4758]

Found one the size of a volleyball before. I see a lot of these in southern Illinois.

[@mikemason4758]

What is going on here?

[@UntamedScience]

WOW. That's really big!

[@renegademystic2771]

Chanterelles grow individually, not in clumps with stems joining at base.

[@patrickday4206]

Can we use the dna for genetic engineering like we do the jellyfish??

[@ike0G]

I dont think ive ever seen these and if i have it wasnt at night while they're glowing. I hope i do some day. Ill be looking. When I was a kid a tree fell by my grandparents house and the inside of it glowed a greenish yellow color. This is in Michigan. Anybody know what kind of tree that was?

[@UntamedScience]

I bet it was fungi that were glowing!

[@jxk7712]

Where is Paul Stamets on the Jack o lantern

[@kamalakrsna]

"When you see the GLOW ... you're GOOD to go"

[@tippydaytona4900]

We have them in our yard here in north GA but they don’t seem to glow.🤷‍♂️

[@UntamedScience]

Bring the house in a very dark room right before they put our spores. Let your eyes adjust to the dark. Maybe that would let you see them

[@frankmeyers7304]

may be ringless honey mushrooms

[@tippydaytona4900]

@@frankmeyers7304 we have those around here too but sure looks like jackolantern to me (and my mushroom ID ap😄). I guess it’s a mystery for now

[@RealJonzuk]

i never knew they were real im so happy glow in the dark mushrooms are real omg i wanna bring them in a cave like a video game pikmin

[@sveu3pm]

first of all chantrelle doesnt grow in such buckets. second they have much shorter stem.This lantern looks much more similar to honey fungus

[@UntamedScience]

Great comment. It does look much more like a honey fungus. For a new chanterelle hunter though, it's good to at least know how to tell the difference.

[@buddygene5918]

They don't even look close lol.. idk if ppl can't see as many colors as me sometimes..

[@UntamedScience]

I mean, colors vary, so you can't go completely by the color...

[@wendyschutze2818]

What is the point of pulling up so many large clumps of them? Are you going to do anything good with them, or just pull them out so they die just because you choose to pull them out for no reason?

[@UntamedScience]

The mushroom isn't dying. I just pulled the fruiting bodies an hour or so before lawn mowers came through and mulched it all up. The body of the fungus in the mycelium is all underground and doing well!

[@bkb0859]

That is so cool about a deadly mushroom, killing csncer cells.

[@philliprudluff8376]

foxfire

[@Ixquick979]

I ate some and didn't suffer any ill effect.

[@UntamedScience]

I wouldn't risk it though. There really are no upsides. Small amounts of toxin are different than large amounts too. You can also eat small amounts of almost any poison.

[@NBC_NCO]

Aligators.

[@wendyschutze2818]

You just pull large clumps out for nothing, why don’t you leave them be?

[@UntamedScience]

I pulled up those clumps to look at the bioluminescence in my studio. The lawn mowers came an hour later to mulch the entire patch. Plus the body of this organism is below the surface in the roots. These mushrooms are there to spread the spores.

[@themyceliumnetwork]

how many times is the thumbnail of your videos going to be changed so that you can trick people into watching your video more than once ?? this is a scumbag trick dude !!

[@-cherith-]

It's about tricking the youtube algorithm, not people. If you got tricked, shame on you, dude.

[@themyceliumnetwork]

@@-cherith- i didn't watch it the first time i seen it & only clicked on the video to: #1 comment about the scumbag tactics. #2 click "do not recommend channel"

[@UntamedScience]

Thanks bud. That's right. Getting a title and thumbnail right is challenging. If the clickthrough rate isn't above 6% for the first people who come across it, it almost never gets shown to others so we test out different thumbnails the fist 24 hours and watch the analytics. Often we'll have 3-4 ready to test. Bummer that people think it's "trickery". Some of my best videos never got seen because I couldn't figure out a good thumbnail. We're just doing out job trying to get fun nature content out there. :)

[@themyceliumnetwork]

@@UntamedScience the last thing id call myself is your bud. clicked "do not recommend channel" your percentage has just been lowered

[@sunmartinez1]

​@@themyceliumnetworklol. Why would you be jealous of someone's amazing work? Go eat some magic mushrooms to wash away all that negativity and live a life where you can appreciate the valuable information around you. Shame on you