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Foxfire, also called fairy fire and chimpanzee fire, [1] is the bioluminescence created by some species of fungi present in decaying wood. The bluish-green glow is attributed to a luciferase, an oxidative enzyme, which emits light as it reacts with a luciferin. The phenomenon has been known since ancient times, with its source determined in 1823.
Peat mosses are known to explosively launch their spores. [32] Hat-throwing fungi fire their spore capsules up to 2 m, [33] and the cannonball fungi of the genus Sphaerobolus, such as S. stellatus, the artillery fungus can throw sticky spore sacs up to 6 m horizontally.
The rapid spread of the fires were likely also aided by the extremely dry season that preceded them. Over 83% of Los Angeles County was in a drought, according to the most recent U.S. Drought Monitor.
Instead of fire-hardening the park, the city — which the state said had undertaken the work without proper permitting — ended up paying $2 million in fines and was ordered by the California ...
These are also the main factors to its pathogenicity. As the fruiting body continues to grow and obtain nutrients, it forms into a mature mushroom. Armillaria ostoyae in particular grows wide and thin sheet-like plates radiating from the stem which is known as its gills. The gills hold the spores of a mature mushroom.
Fire adaptations are traits of plants and animals that help them survive wildfire or to use resources created by wildfire. These traits can help plants and animals increase their survival rates during a fire and/or reproduce offspring after a fire. Both plants and animals have multiple strategies for surviving and reproducing after fire.
Yap co-authored a report in 2021 that found more than 2 million homes in California are in high-fire-risk areas. State lawmakers, who are grappling with fire risk alongside a dire need for housing ...
The mushrooms produce spores that are wind dispersed, and through this method, new colonies acquire a fungal strain. [23] In some species, the genetic variation of the fungus is very low, suggesting that spores of the fungus are transmitted vertically from nest to nest, rather than from wind dispersed spores. [26]