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Aecidium osmanthus

CUP-CH 1778

Aecidium osmanthi

These blemishes on a fern may seem insignificant in the larger scheme of things. But other plant-pathogenic fungi have influenced human survival since agriculture was invented.

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.