d3m0nr4v3r@feddit.deM to Mycology@mander.xyz · edit-22年前Blue/Green Elfcup. Thr mycelium leaves the wood it grows on blue as well.feddit.deimagemessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up1197arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1195arrow-down1imageBlue/Green Elfcup. Thr mycelium leaves the wood it grows on blue as well.feddit.ded3m0nr4v3r@feddit.deM to Mycology@mander.xyz · edit-22年前message-square8fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarerisottinopazzesco@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2年前I don’t think so, as being colored blue at room temperature and burning blue are different things. If you think about it, when you burn colored paper you don’t get a correspondingly colored flame.
minus-squareroguetrick@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2年前The pigment is an organic molecule so it’d burn the same color as other organic molecules as the fire breaks it down https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylindein. Flame color is based on the elements in the flame. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flame_test
If that wood burns is the flame blue?
I don’t think so, as being colored blue at room temperature and burning blue are different things. If you think about it, when you burn colored paper you don’t get a correspondingly colored flame.
The pigment is an organic molecule so it’d burn the same color as other organic molecules as the fire breaks it down https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylindein. Flame color is based on the elements in the flame. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flame_test