The @rbgkew.bsky.social Data Portal is an incredible digital treasure trove, housing millions of Kew's prestigious #herbarium and #fungarium specimens, some of which date back over 300 years! 🌿🍄

You can check it out here: data.kew.org?lang=en-GB 🖥️

#RoyalBotanicGardensKew #KewGardens #DataPortal

Joe Fleetwood Hennen

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Happy birthday to the late Joseph Hennen, 3rd Director of the Arthur #Fungarium, pivotal figure in the merging of the Arthur and Kriebel #Herbaria at Purdue University. ag.purdue.edu/department/b...

Terry Torres Cruz - Postdoctoral Scholar Feature Terry Torres Cruz’s path to mycology – the study of fungi – has been guided by lots of curiosity – and a little bit of fate. Growing up in a rural part of Costa Rica, Torres Cruz wasn’t sure what she ...

Learn more about Terry's mission to find the elusive alternate host of coffee leaf rust.
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#mycomonday #herbarium #fungarium #fungi #coffee #rustfungi
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UPDATE: Founder of the Purdue Botany and Plant Pathology's #rustfungi #Fungarium, J. C. Arthur, bought this top hat from Levering & Co. (1870 - 1902; thanks Tippecanoe Co. Historical Assoc.), making the top hat well over 120 years old!
Come visit us and see for yourself!

Happy birthday, George B. Cummins (1904-2007)!
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Cummins was the 2nd Director of the #Purdue BPP Arthur #Fungarium, inaugural @msafungi.bsky.social Distinguished Mycologist in 1981, and last published at the age of 99.
To celebrate, have a prolific day!

Checklist of Rust Fungi (Basidiomycota, Pucciniales) and their hosts in Indiana, United States of America Rust fungi (Pucciniales) comprise a large group of ecologically and economically important plant pathogens distributed globally where their hosts grow. The first published study of rusts in Indiana wa...

Great way to celebrate 🥳 the 121st birthday 🎂 of George B Cummins', second Director of the Arthur #Fungarium at #Purdue:
Publish a checklist 📜 of the #rust #fungi of Indiana!
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'Zombie spider' fungi among Kew archive specimens Kew's Fungarium is being digitally archived by scientists to grant researchers remote access.

#kew #gardens #fungarium

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Fungarium collection digitised! What interesting specimens have we uncovered? As part of the Digitisation Project, our team has been working toward making our entire dried fungi collection available for global access.

Utter Glee!
#fungi #fungarium #herbarium #collections #museum #botanicalgarden @rbgkew.bsky.social

#WOMEN & #BIODIVERSITY: #GENDER & THE MAKING OF THE #KEW #FUNGARIUM 1900-1950. Fantastic funded PhD opportunity from @AnthropoceneBio @york.ac.uk & @rbgkew.bsky.social supervised by @sabineclarke.bsky.social & Dr Nathan Smith. Details: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l...

Having built up a #fungarium in the back garden over the years, this was probs my best #fungi find in it to date - Cystolepiota pulverulenta. Didn't last long, but a beaut.

LCAB PhD studentships - Currently recruiting Women and biodiversity: gender and the making of the Kew Fungarium, 1900-1950

🚨 Prospective PhD students, come work with me and some amazing colleagues on looking at women in mycology! Details here and happy to answer any questions by email or DM:
sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l... 🚨 #historyofscience #fungarium #phdopportunity

Phylogeny, biogeography, and host range of gall midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) feeding on spores of rust fungi (Basidiomycota: Pucciniales) Abstract. Rust fungi (Pucciniales) are plant pathogens that can cause devastating yield losses to economically important crops and threaten native plants w

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Excellent work conducted by Paula Meline-Gomez of the Aime Lab on preserved Mycodiplosis fly larvae on #fungarium collections.
Another study showing the significance of #herbaria, responding to questions that would go otherwise unanswered.
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Three big beautifully painted books about plants, mushrooms and animals. The plant one is open on the rainforest environment illustration. There is also a box of postcards with animals from the book. The rest was not available at the time of purchase.

It's beautiful. I love the old timey looking art. Also the size of the books allows really big pictures, a pleasant surprise. I love books about nature, animals and plants, it is my bucket of beer and a cup of tea. Inspiring too. #Book #Animalium #Botanicum #Fungarium