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Trametes cinnabarina

CUP-CH 1921

Trametes cinnabarina

Mycophobia, the fear of fungi, has deep roots in Western culture. Despite their unpopular reputations, fungi can be appreciated for their strange beauty and for their essential roles in the environment we share with them.

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.