The mushrooms’ cup-shaped fruiting bodies grow in clusters and sometimes bouquets on pine stumps, the base of living eucalypt trees or along old roots, and can grow as big as 20 centimetres across.

In daylight, they appear a creamy white colour, sometimes with brown, black or purple shading, but at night we see them glowing green.

Like glow worms, fire flies, and sea sparkle, ghost mushrooms produce light known as bioluminescence through an internal chemical reaction.