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Lenzites albida var. serpens

CUP-CH 1923

Lenzites albida var. serpens

Herbaria, such as the Cornell Plant Pathology Herbarium, are biological libraries. Instead of books, they collect plant and fungus specimens such as this small bracket fungus. Unlike book libraries, every holding in an herbarium is unique and seldom is duplicated at any other institution.

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.