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Cucurbitaria pithyophila

CUP-CH 1747

Cucurbitaria pithyophila

More than 250,000 species of fungi have been described. Yet, mycologists think this represents less than 10 percent of the species that exist on Earth. Fungal biodiversity is one of the great frontiers of scientific exploration.

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.