World profile
Act 1 Near Earth
4 Mushroom Forest
a purple night where the mushrooms light up
In the Mushroom Forest, it is night. Giant mushrooms glow blue and pink, the moss shines and spores glow. Listen: the Parasaurolophus calls, and a mushroom grows!
Your dino ally
Parasaurolophus
It helps you only in this world
In the game
A purple night where the mushrooms glow. The Parasaurolophus's call makes new ones grow!
- Giant mushrooms, blue and pink
- Shining moss
- Glowing spores
- The Parasaurolophus helps you in this world
Its light Purple night, glowing mushrooms.
In real life
Real glowing mushrooms
In nature, some mushrooms glow in the dark. In 2020, scientists knew of 81 species. [1]
Their light is bluish green. It comes from a chemical reaction inside the mushroom. [2]
In Brazil, researchers studied a mushroom that only glows at night. They made fake mushrooms with a small light: they attracted more insects than the fake mushrooms that were switched off. [3]
Their idea: the light attracts insects, which carry the mushroom's spores a little farther away. [3]
Sources
The information on this page comes from these sources:
- Mycena genomes resolve the evolution of fungal bioluminescence, Huei-Mien Ke et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (49), 2020 (accessed November 5, 2026).
- Foxfire, Wikipedia (English) (accessed November 5, 2026).
- Some mushrooms glow in the dark – here's why, Mike Hale, Bangor University, The Conversation, March 19, 2015 (accessed November 5, 2026).