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Blue/Green Elfcup. Thr mycelium leaves the wood it grows on blue as well. (feddit.de)
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We found a lot of that blue wood lying around before finding these little fellas that produce it.

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[–] mx_smith@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If that wood burns is the flame blue?

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] risottinopazzesco@feddit.it 5 points 1 year ago

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.