Newly pulled stumps glowing in the dark.

[TexasTimbers]

PineNut, I am not talking about the crawlers, I am talking about a blueish and whitish fireball that came blasting down the fuselage like an alien in a science fiction movie. I nearly wet my pants.

[PineNut]

I have not experienced this discharge but heard about one secondhand. It was associated with lightning and a lightning strike and was a fireball that traveled down the inside of the fuselage from front to back.

[jim king]

I had never heard of the term foxfire but here in the Amazon there is a mold that grows on the trees that glows in the dark.  I have no idea why or what the chemical composition is but in some areas it is very common.

[Deadwood]

Glow In The Dark woods are very common actually. On my website I have a whole list of them and what color they glow under a black-light bulb. I am not surprised that you found some glowing stumps out in the woods, that is if the light conditions mimic that of a black-light bulb.

I don't have any pictures of any of my early work with the stuff, but lately I have had some ideas on how to use glow-in-the-dark woods in some woodworking projects.

In my house I was going to use Black Locus as a backsplash trim piece, then every other light under the cabinets I was going to make a blacklight bulb on a seperate switch. I thought it would be cool to turn on the switch at night and watch the backsplash glow. Other ideas include using the wood as accents in display cases for guns, in curio cabinets and other places where you could hide a black light bulb so the effect could be seen easily.

As I said, here is a list of the woods that glow-in-the-Dark. Maybe by looking at the list you can determine what the stumps are by way of what is indigenous in your area. If nothing else perhaps we have learned something new today.

Glow In The Dark Woods

[Jeff]

Your list of woods don't really "glow in the dark". Not true phosphorescence as with foxfire. They react with black light, as do many many substances. 

[Daren]

Still neat though Deadwood, I did not know that stuff on the link. Now I am going to have to try it  :, where is my black light  ??? I just happen to have a chunk of honeylocust handy.