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    glow shrooms

    New species of glowing mushroom found growing on dead bamboo in India
    Glowing is always in fashion.
    Alexandru Micu by Alexandru Micu November 23, 2020 in Biology, News, Science

    A new species of mushroom has been discovered in the Assam province, northeastern India. It glows.


    Image credits Karunarathna, Mortimer, Tibpromma, Dutta, et al., (2020), Phytotaxa.
    A team of researchers from India and China reports on two weeks of fieldwork in the Assam region, during which they spotted several new species of mushrooms. The most exciting of these is a species that locals describe as “electric mushrooms” that lives on dead bamboo. The species, christened Roridomyces phyllostachydis is bioluminescent — it produces its own light.

    Glow up
    “The members of the genus Roridomyces are very fragile and they love moist and humid conditions,” explained Samantha Karunarathna, senior mycologist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and lead author of the report.

    “In general, bioluminescent mushrooms seem to have co-evolved together with some specific insects as these mushrooms attract insects to disperse their spores.”

    The species may be new to science, but locals have known about (and used) it for quite a while now. They’ve been employing bamboo sticks with these glowing mushrooms growing on them as natural torches at night, for example.

    It only grows on dead bamboo, the team explains, although it’s not immediately apparent why. It may be the case that the bamboo substrate offers special conditions or resources that the fungus prefers, according to Karunarathna, but until the issue is researched more thoroughly, we can’t know for sure. This is the first species of the genus Roridomyces to be discovered in India, the team adds.

    The team recovered samples of the mushrooms, dried them, and then performed a genetic analysis to understand where it fits on the tree of life. Both morphological features and its genetic heritage support its position as a new species in the genus Roridomyces. Currently, 12 other species are known in this genus, and five of them are also bioluminescent. The team named the species phyllostachydis after the genus of the host bamboo tree (Phyllostachys) from which it was collected.


    Image credits Karunarathna, Mortimer, Tibpromma, Dutta, et al., (2020), Phytotaxa.
    During the day, they look pretty unassuming. However, at night they glow with a clear, green light — but only from its stripes and mycelia (which are a rough equivalent to roots) that are burrowing into the bamboo. The mushrooms’ brown caps do not emit light at all.

    So why does it glow? Bioluminescence is most commonly seen in ocean environments than on dry land, although fireflies are iconic examples of the latter. Its typically used to attract attention, either for hunting or to coax insects into visiting a plant and spreading its pollen or seeds around. Of about 120,000 described fungus species, around 100 are known to be bioluminescent; only a handful of these are native to India. This is likely due to the fact that there aren’t enough trained specialists to go out and look for new species and document those that have already been discovered, Karunarathna argues.

    Bioluminescent fungi commonly grow on decaying wood and are able to feed on the lignin in plant debris (lignin is a structural component in the walls of plant cells, which gives them their stiffness). The largest genus of bioluminescent fungi we know of is the Mycena (bonnet mushrooms), and genetic studies of Mycena suggest that this trait evolved around 160 million years ago.

    The paper “Roridomyces phyllostachydis (Agaricales, Mycenaceae), a new bioluminescent fungus from Northeast India” has been published in the journal Phytotaxa.
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    Bamboo ceiling

    A-pop! White people are ruining ‘bamboo ceiling’ for us!
    MARCH 25, 2021 BY NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY

    By Stacy Nguyen
    Northwest Asian Weekly

    I know we’ve all had a really terrible week, and it feels a bit discordant to read frivolous pop culture news. But I hope this column gives you a break from the heaviness.

    White people get ****ed about term “bamboo ceiling,” which sounds like something they’d do



    Asian reporter Rebecca Sun wrote a headline in the Hollywood Reporter that said “Diverse Oscars field sees Asian actors shatter the bamboo ceiling” and a whole lotta white people got really uppity about it because they didn’t realize that bamboo ceiling is legit a term coined by author (and Asian person) Jane Hyun, who used the term to describe how hard it is for Asian Americans to get into leadership positions in big companies.

    Instead, these woke white people who don’t know that much about Asian stuff and aren’t great at checking bylines were like, “Bamboo ceiling! Oh, because they are Asian? How dare you! Racist!”

    To her credit, Sun responded in a super chill and super classy way. She tweeted, “Hi! I wrote that headline (and the story). My editor, who is not Asian, was worried about it, but it’s a conscious choice I made to reference the phrase’s usage in the corporate world (the difficulty Asian executives have in breaking through to upper management).”

    Anyway, the Hollywood Reporter has since changed that headline to something white people won’t get mad about on behalf of people of color because we must always, always, always center white ignorance and white comfort and do workarounds for white #fakefacts.
    'Bamboo ceiling' and 'Bamboo curtain' are longstanding terms.

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    Bamboo Drifting

    I didn't know bamboo drifiting was a thing beyond Bodhidharma

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    Martial arts fan shows off 'Single-Bamboo Drifting' stunt
    2022-07-19 10:52:52Ecns.cnEditor : Luo PanECNS App Download

    (ECNS) -- Dressed as a "Swordsman", Pan Haitao stood on a bamboo, drifting on the river through the urban area of Jilin City, Jilin Province on Saturday.

    In a red ancient costume with a bamboo hat on his head and a jade pendant dangling on his belt, his performance attracted much attention from tourists.

    The 42-year-old martial arts fan recently made a stir online because of his martial arts skill shown in a video of crossing the Songhua River, which is more than 500 meters wide.

    Pan said the skill he mastered is called "Single-Bamboo Drifting", a national intangible cultural heritage, and a folk stunt traditionally performed by various people inhabiting the Chishui River Basin in Guizhou Province. The bamboo for drifting across the river which is 8 meters in length, about 15 centimeters in diameter, and about 35-40 kilograms in weight, is often placed in the water along the riverbank of the Songhua River.

    Pan said that the reason why he chooses to practice "Single-Bamboo Drifting" is that he wants to realize his martial arts dream, a dream he has had since childhood.

    Pan is both a businessman and a martial arts fan, with a particular interest in watching Hong Kong martial arts movies. He also pushed himself to lose 10 kilograms for better performance.

    Pan said it's hard to maintain balance and sustain physical strength while standing on the bamboo for drifting. The drifting is highly unstable because of the great fluidity of the Songhua River. Also, as a fan of winter swimming and a good swimmer, he rapidly mastered the skills of "Single-Bamboo Drifting". Even so, he has fallen off the bamboo pole and got bumps and bruises time and again in the last two years, but he has never changed his mind to learn and pass on the skills of "Single-Bamboo Drifting".
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