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Shiraia bambusicola

CUP-CH 2015

Shiraia bambusicola

Even disease-causing fungi play an important role in ecosystems by killing some plants and sparing others. Imagine a forest in which every seedling lived to mature into a full-sized tree. There would be no room for tree-huggers to spread their arms.

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.