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Phellinus pini is one of the 2,000 specimens of fungi that will soon be returned to their native China after 70 years being kept at Cornell University.

"These specimens are invaluable for Chinese mycologists to have available, so they can document their own current flora and gain some insight into what conditions were at the time they were collected," said Richard P. Korf, director emeritus of Cornell's Plant Pathology Herbarium, in a statement.

"Many of these collection areas no longer exist in China."
—Photograph courtesy Kent Loefller, Cornell University
 

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