{"id":10590,"date":"2025-06-13T07:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/?p=10590"},"modified":"2025-06-08T08:58:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T12:58:57","slug":"ode-to-foxfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/ode-to-foxfire\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to Foxfire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><div id=\"tdi_1\" class=\"tdc-row\"><div class=\"vc_row tdi_2  wpb_row td-pb-row\" >\n<style scoped>\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n.tdi_2,\r\n                .tdi_2 .tdc-columns{\r\n                    min-height: 0;\r\n                }.tdi_2,\r\n\t\t\t\t.tdi_2 .tdc-columns{\r\n\t\t\t\t    display: block;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_2 .tdc-columns{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: 100%;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_2:before,\r\n\t\t\t\t.tdi_2:after{\r\n\t\t\t\t    display: table;\r\n\t\t\t\t}\n<\/style><div class=\"vc_column tdi_4  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span12\">\n<style scoped>\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n.tdi_4{\r\n                    vertical-align: baseline;\r\n                }.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper,\r\n\t\t\t\t.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper > .tdc-elements{\r\n\t\t\t\t    display: block;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper > .tdc-elements{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: 100%;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper > .vc_row_inner{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: auto;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: auto;\r\n\t\t\t\t    height: auto;\r\n\t\t\t\t}\n<\/style><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\" ><div class=\"wpb_wrapper td_block_empty_space td_block_wrap vc_empty_space tdi_6 \"  style=\"height: 32px\"><\/div>[vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"dropcap dropcap2\">S<\/span>ome people carry wicker baskets into the woods and fill them with chanterelles and morels. They gather wild mushrooms to plop into soups and sprinkle on salads. I occasionally enjoy mushrooms myself, baked into focaccia or simmered with vegetables. But when I go into the woods with an eye toward fungi, I\u2019m not usually hoping to harvest dinner. I\u2019m hunting for glimpses of wonder.<\/p>\n<p>interesting, but bioluminescent mushroom species\u2014often referred to as foxfire\u2014are especially precious, because they glow with living light. Foxfire turns forest floors into dreamworlds, the realm of fairy tales and mystical creatures. The mushrooms seem too magical to be real, but foxfire\u2014ounce for ounce, arguably the most enchanted fungi in all the land\u2014is as real as real can be. And you can find it all over the world. Bioluminescent mushrooms glow in North American hardwood forests, under the rain-dripping leaves of Brazil, and among the bamboo groves of Japan. Spin a globe under your finger and you\u2019ll likely find foxfire not far from wherever your pointer lands.<\/p>\n<p>Historically, various species of foxfire were collected in jars to serve as lanterns. The mushrooms have been used to outline pathways in the dark, and they once illuminated the hulls of early submarines. Our word foxfire is thought to have derived from the French faux, for \u201cfalse,\u201d making the term \u201cfake fire.\u201d But whatever the etymology, almost everywhere foxfire is found, folklore associates it with mysterious, supernatural forces\u2014and often with those fire-furred woodland animals. In Japan, for example, foxfire is associated with ghostly light said to appear in the presence of foxes. In Finland, foxes are famously known to move through the woods with brushy tails that twinkle. It\u2019s rumored that they\u2019re sometimes able to even ignite things with their tails, as though they\u2019re painting with fire.<\/p>\n<p>In my home region of southern Appalachia\u2014where foxes flit out of woods with regularity and foxfire fungi is abundant\u2014 foxfire species include jack-o\u2019-lantern mushrooms, large and orange as pumpkins, and bitter oysters that in the dark looklike coins of light. To find them, I\u2019ve learned that patience is required. Glowing mushrooms are subtle; they reveal themselves only to those who allow their night vision to ripen.<\/p>\n<p>When I set out to find foxfire, I take time to experience light sifting out of this world. I rest on mossy logs and let my eyes adjust slowly, in unison with dusk. In time, I can often see mycelium consuming fallen leaves, like glowing cotton candy on the forest floor, whereas before dark I saw only clumps of ordinary leaf litter. Sometimes only in the dark is the ordinary revealed to be extraordinary. Of this, foxfire is a beautiful reminder.<\/p>\n<p>Many mushrooms release their spores in tiny clouds that swirl in the wind. I have never seen it myself, but I\u2019ve heard that when bioluminescent mushrooms do this, their spores glow in midair as miniature clouds of light. That seems worth seeking out\u2014a quest yet to be undertaken. In the fungal world, there\u2019s always something magical awaiting.<\/p>\n<p>Many mushrooms release their spores in tiny clouds that swirl in the wind. I have never seen it myself, but I\u2019ve heard that when bioluminescent mushrooms do this, their spores glow in midair as miniature clouds of light. That seems worth seeking out\u2014a quest yet to be undertaken. In the fungal world, there\u2019s always something magical awaiting.<\/p>\n<p>Bitter oysters are not something you\u2019d want to simmer in stew or toss in a salad. But it\u2019s impossible to question their value if you\u2019ve ever seen them alight. In a world that seems so overexplored and overlit with artificial light, discovering glowing mushrooms in natural darkness delivers a giant helping of awe. In this way, foraging inedible foxfire provides its own sort of nourishment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Henion\u2019s book Night Magic,<\/strong> published by Algonquin Books, can be found wherever books are sold. 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