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Phellinus pini

CUP-CH 1758

Phellinus pini

This bracket fungus supports a sunbathing passenger—a lichen taking advantage of a platform for photosynthesis. Sometimes mistaken for true plants, lichens actually are symbiotic partnerships between fungi and algae and grow in places where neither partner could survive alone.

Image by Kent Loeffler, Photographer, Dept. of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology
Text by Kathie T. Hodge,
Director, Cornell Plant Pathology Herbarium.

© Cornell University.

A Gallery of images of the Fungi of China collection

Our art/science exhibit was displayed in Cornell's Mann Library during the Summer of 2005. That's about when we initiated the project of repatriating parts of this historically important collection. You can read our story here.