Join Tom, one of our Visitor Experience Rangers on a virtual fungi tour of Wakehurst.
Let us know what fungi you've spotted out and about below 👇
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Enjoying the rain outside the Palm House Kew Gardens this #FungiFriday 🌧️

This #FungiFriday check out this study from Reschke et al. collaborating with Kew mycologist Alona Yu. Biketova.

Using a combination of multi-gene sequencing approach and morphological characters to examine species in the genus 𝘕𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘢.
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Look out for high throughput assembled genomes of these fungi coming soon!

Here is 𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘺𝘥𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘴 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘴 , a fungus that parasitizes insects. This fungus was first described by Linnaeus in 1753.