This #FungiFriday marks the opening of Kew’s new #CarbonGarden! With its big mushroom centrepiece, we thought we would dig into Fungi’s indispensable role in carbon storage; through nutrient cycling, soil formation, and as symbionts with plants 🍄🍄🟫

Happy #Pride month! This #FungiFriday we are going on a fungal foray through the pride flag. There have been many iterations since its original conception in 1978, including the Intersex-Inclusive flag by Valentino Vecchietti – which we have recreated in fungal fashion for the LGBTQ myco-maniacs

NEW! You can now access MILLIONS of our dried plant & fungal specimens via our new Data Portal! The official release comes as we continue to digitise our entire collection, some of which were collected by Chares Darwin himself! 🌿 Read more & check it out 🧪 www.kew.org/read-and-wat... #PlantScience

What if an island’s future lived in its soil? On Great & Little Tobago (BVI), goats trampled native plants - compacting soil, eroding topsoil, and stopping seedlings from taking root. But hope lives on in our work with local partners to uncover native seeds hidden beneath the surface.

Huge news today that the Darwin papers in our #KewLA #Archive collection are being added to the @unesco.org Memory of the World Register! 🗃️ Take a look at the writings of a young Charles Darwin with our Senior Archivist & Records Manager, Kiri 👇

Björk Performs Benefit Concert For Wilted Sunflowers In Mushroom Forest theonion.com/bjork-p...

BIG NEWS: Fungi take the spotlight on the IUCN Red List! 🌏🍄@iucnfungi.bsky.social For the first time, over 1,000 fungi have been assessed - helping us understand the threats they face from habitat loss, pollution, and climate change. 🧪⚒️ #FungiFridays #Conservation

Yesterday was #WorldFrogDay but we're still thinking about it this #FungiFriday, specifically, Chytrid fungi! The best known is Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, a pathogen that’s a significant driver of declining amphibian populations 🐸📉 Yet this diverse group is more than its bad reputation! 🧵👇

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