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Evening Standard
Rebecca Speare-Cole

‘Zombie spiders’ and Darwin collection among fungi archived in Kew digitisation

David Attenborough’s ‘zombie fungus’ was first spotted on an episode of BBC’s Winterwatch (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew/Tim Fogg/PA) -

“Zombie spiders” and Darwin’s HMS Beagle collection are among the fungi being digitally archived by scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Kew’s Fungarium, an archive beneath the west London garden, is one of the world’s biggest and most important collections of fungal diversity, containing more than 1.1 million specimens collected over the past 175 years.

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