High-speed video van Paddo sporen.

High-speed video has revealed that the incredible variety of fantastic forms taken by fungal spores helps them catapult themselves into the air.

For hundreds of years, scientists have described the spectrum of spore shapes — a different one for each of 15,000 known varieties of fungi, an assortment so astounding as to have sprung from the mind of Willy Wonka rather than Charles Darwin.

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Luminescent fungus

A newly identified luminescent fungus called Mycena luxaeterna was
discovered in a forest in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The mushroom caps are
tiny, under a half inch (8 mm) in diameter and the stems have a
jelly-like structure. The glow is easier to observe at night (right).
Credit: Cassius V. Stevani, Chemistry Institute, University of Sao
Paulo.
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