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PHOTOS: "War Fungi" to Return to China

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Many of the specimens in Cornell University's Chinese fungi collection (above, Puccinia angelicaeedulis), gathered from the Chinese wilderness in the 1920s, were the first samples of their species to be found.

Sometime in 2010 the 2,000-plus specimens will return to their native China after 70 years of safekeeping at the American university.

—Photograph courtesy Kent Loefller, Cornell University