Lakhimpur Kheri, July 17 -- : The reappearance of glowing mushrooms in the Salukapur area of Dudhwa National Park (DNP) has once again underlined the park's remarkable biodiversity.

Dudhwa biologist and outreach in-charge Vipin Kapoor Saini, who first discovered the fungi along with colleague Apoorva Gupta and range officer Surendra during last year's monsoon survey, identified them as Filoboletus manipularis.

Unlike most mushrooms of their family, these fungi exhibit bioluminescence -- the ability to emit a natural glow in the dark.

The species was first recorded and documented in Dudhwa during last year's monsoon along with 58 other species of macrofungi. Its reappearance this monsoon has delighted both the field biologists and the D...