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The Cornell Plant Pathology Herbarium (CUP) is a museum of fungi — the fourth or fifth largest of its kind in the US. We hold about 400,000 preserved fungus, lichen, and plant disease specimens, including over 11,000 type specimens, each the first of its kind to be described and named. Our CUP Photograph Collection includes over 60,000 historical scientific photographs of mushrooms, agricultural practices, plant diseases, and portraits.
Our facility is located on Gallus Road, east of the Cornell campus; our mailbox is on campus.
Over half of CUP’s specimen data have been digitized, and can be searched via mycoportal and lichenportal.
There you can also find data from our earlier project on the extensive collections of G.F. Atkinson (1854-1918), an influential Cornell mycologist. Learn more about him on our Atkinson website. We appreciate support from the National Science Foundation for these key projects.
Pages
- About the herbarium
- Search specimens
- Request a loan
- Submit specimens
- Special collections > Photo collections
Extras
- George F. Atkinson – Collection, biography, gallery, bibliography
- Fungi of China
- Annotation of herbarium specimens
- What is a type specimen?
- Peck Foray
- Cornell Mushroom Club
Take a virtual tour!
Lichen collection
Remembering Richard Korf
The Herbarium’s Director Emeritus, Professor Richard P. Korf, passed away in August 2016 at the age of 91. Dr. Korf is remembered in this Cornell Chronicle article. Friends may choose to remember him via a donation to Cornell’s Richard P. Korf Graduate Excellence Fund.