If you catch them at night time, some mushrooms have a pretty cool trick up their sleeves: They can glow in the dark. Some 71 of the 1000,000 known species of fungus are bioluminescent, and now researchers can explain why. The light attracts insects, and spores stick to their bodies. The bugs then wonder off and
spread the spores, allowing the fungi to "colonize new habitats". That important for fungi like N. gardneri, known to Brazilians as flor de coco, which lives in areas without much wind.

Flor de coco operates according to a circadian rhythm, or a 24- hour biological cycle, During the day the fungus doesn't give off light. At night, however the light gets "exceptionally intense, Researchers had previously believed the light was emitted at all hours. Pretty interesting .