Fascinating world of fungi

There are estimated to be between 700,000-5 million species of fungi in the world. As well as the familiar mushrooms we buy in shops and see in fields, fungi include coral fungi, puffballs, and stinkhorns, tree brackets, truffles and morels, Penicillium and other moulds, yeasts, crop-destroying rusts and smuts, and even a number of human pathogens including Cryptococcus, thrush, and ringworm.

Learn more about Kew's work with fungi.