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 ?

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

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...

Or simply radiation. :D

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

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.

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

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!!

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.

@BeefontheBone
it does glow