Fairy Lanterns
Episode 84 of the Herbarium of the Bizarre podcast, hosted by Meredith Hemphill, titled "Fairy Lanterns" was published on July 4, 2025 and runs 9 minutes.
July 4, 2025 ·9m · Herbarium of the Bizarre
Summary
If you’re in the U.S., I hope you try and have a happy 4th of July. And as a public safety professional in my day job, I must remind you to please not start any fires or injure anyone with fireworks. ‘Kay thanks.Music by James Milor from PixabayInformation provided by:https://www.popsci.com/environment/fairy-lantern-japan-extinct-fungi/https://www.discoverwildlife.com/plant-facts/thismia-malayana-factshttps://www.livescience.com/61925-fairy-lantern-plant-rainforest.htmlhttps://phys.org/news/2024-02-species-story.htmlRediscovery of Thismia neptunis (Thismiaceae) after 151 years by Michal Sochor, et al. (2018). Phytotaxa, 340(1), 71-78. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.340.1.5Fairy lanterns in focus by Chris J. Thorogood and Siti-Munirah Mat Yunoh (2021). Plants People Planet, 3(6), 680-684. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10217Fairy lanterns may lure pollinators by mimicking fungi by Kenji Suetsugu and Masahiro Sueyoshi (2021). Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 19(4), 233. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2342https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thismiahttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thismia_rodwayi
Episode Description
If you’re in the U.S., I hope you try and have a happy 4th of July. And as a public safety professional in my day job, I must remind you to please not start any fires or injure anyone with fireworks. ‘Kay thanks.
Music by James Milor from Pixabay
Information provided by:
- https://www.popsci.com/environment/fairy-lantern-japan-extinct-fungi/
- https://www.discoverwildlife.com/plant-facts/thismia-malayana-facts
- https://www.livescience.com/61925-fairy-lantern-plant-rainforest.html
- https://phys.org/news/2024-02-species-story.html
- Rediscovery of Thismia neptunis (Thismiaceae) after 151 years by Michal Sochor, et al. (2018). Phytotaxa, 340(1), 71-78. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.340.1.5
- Fairy lanterns in focus by Chris J. Thorogood and Siti-Munirah Mat Yunoh (2021). Plants People Planet, 3(6), 680-684. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10217
- Fairy lanterns may lure pollinators by mimicking fungi by Kenji Suetsugu and Masahiro Sueyoshi (2021). Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 19(4), 233. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2342
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thismia
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thismia_rodwayi