Talk:Foxfire

message: Can any photographers possible supply an image of this? --NEMT 14:05, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: An image was uploaded, which was replaced by another image, which was removed after 7 days due to the lack of a license. Then, a different image was added. I've re-added the first image also, so there are now two images. I think these two should be enough, so I've now removed the image request tag. -kotra (talk) 09:00, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Image

message: Why is there a link to Firefox, in the See Also section?  Miuq (talk) 02:26, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Good question.  I removed it.  Gh5046 (talk) 05:24, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Firefox 

message: Can anybody explain the origin for the word itself? I'm especially curious about the "Fox" part.
:Just a guess, but I'd bet it has to do with the Japanese legend of the Kitsune who could create blue or green fire from their paws... This was called foxfire. I'd be willing to bet that the fungus, in the black night, looked a lot like that. 65.191.181.113 (talk) 15:39, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Not likely, since the term has been around a lot longer than regular English contact with Japan. According to , it is actually a corruption of faux-fire, where faux is French for "false" or "fake." That seems a lot more likely, however that site doesn't provide any refs either ... -- 202.63.39.58 (talk) 16:44, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

text: I found something here, relating foxfire to "faux fire", or fire/light without heat, but I'm not sure if it is a reliable source.Sesamehoneytart (talk) 02:10, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Does not explain where the term itself comes from 

message: I removed this link because the article it refers to contains no legends, merely asserts that they exist without any supporting citations. The Lesser Merlin (talk) 08:07, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some legends about foxfire 

message: The article currently says that in notes from Aristotle from the year 382 BC, foxfire would be referenced. It's unlikely that such notes exist, as Aristotle was about 2 years old at the time. Icek~enwiki (talk) 23:53, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aristotle 

message: I removed a note claiming fireflies' bioluminescence and foxfire were caused by "one substance". Article body already says "a luciferase, an oxidative enzyme, which emits light as it reacts with a luciferin" (emphasis added), but maybe it should be made explicit that these are generic terms, not a single enzyme and a single substrate. See e.g. : "The luminescent substances from fungi are completely different from those found in fireflies." 2601:601:8601:1C89:3C25:EDE6:F072:7474 (talk) 00:29, 20 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not all bioluminescence is equal 

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message: Several Casio G-Shock models (DW-5600, DW-6900 and some others with electro-luminescent backlight) for the domestic Japanese market have a "FOXFIRE" (or "FOX FIRE") label instead of "ILLUMINATOR".
Siealex (talk) 21:20, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Casio G-Shock watches 

message: We need to add the location of where this stuff grows. Does it grow only in North America? Is it natural habitat in Asia? Rich Kutney (talk) 06:56, 29 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need to add distribution. 

message: One such reference for the fox(as in the animal) and fire connection is kitsunebi (literally fox fire) as described in this wiki article
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitsunebi 94.191.154.14 (talk) 12:18, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Japanese reference for fox fire without citation