Amazing glow of wood - it "foksfaer"

Foksfaer or bioluminescence - a property of decaying wood glow in the dark. Remember the scene in the movie "The Lord of the Rings" when the characters come into the forest inhabited by elves? Fantastic glowing trees in the forest - this is a large-scale foksfaer.

In fact, nothing in this fantastic natural phenomenon not. The reason for it - wood rotting fungi. That they "light up" small areas of bark phosphorescent green. In the old days these areas and growths called "rotten." Unfortunately, the light is very weak foksfaera and find him in the forest is difficult. But on a moonless night in a rotting stump, if you're lucky, you can observe this unique natural phenomenon.

via factroom.ru