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Kew fungarium is the largest collection of fungi in the world.
It contains 1.3 million specimens of fruiting bodies, the parts of the fungi that appear above ground and release spores.
The collection includes half of all the species known to science.
In the video game and HBO series The Last of Us , a fictional brain-eating fungus from the genus Cordyceps sends the world into a spiral.
Mycologists think that nearly 90 percent of the world’s fungi species are still to be discovered.
The danger, Martinez-Suz says, is that if ecosystems are pushed too far then there might not be any fungal spores remaining to boost populations.
Kew archivists at Kew are only halfway through the long process of digitizing their collection.
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