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Puccinia angelicaeedulis

CUP-CH 1829

Puccinia angelicaeedulis

On this leaf, the stained-glass effect is produced by the light and dark green interveinal areas interspersed with the tiny, red fruiting bodies of a rust fungus. Spores from the fruiting bodies will be carried by the wind to infect new hosts.

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.