**Code**: [FU](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/herbarium-details/?irn=125094) **Organization**: Kyushu University **Department**: Department of Forest and Forest Products Sciences & The Kyushu University museum **Location**: Fukuoka, Fukouka, Japan **Total number of specimens**: 120000 **Current status**: Active **Date founded**: 1928 **Taxonomic coverage**: leaf & carpological specimens, wood samples, wood slide samples **Geographic coverage**: Micronesia, New Guinea,Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Philippines, and Indonesia; worldwide **Important collectors**: R. Kanehira, S. Hatusima, T. Yahara, H. Miyawaki **Notes**: 1928 FU established as a herbarium of Department of Forestry, Faculty of Agriculture at Hakozaki Campus, 1947-2002 almost semi-closed, because of postwar turmoil and absence of botanical taxonomist. 2002 The Kyushu University Museum (established in 2000) started to support FU. 2003-2015 A lot of specimens left outside the storage were salvaged by The Kyushu University Museum. The salvaged specimens and FU specimens deposited after 1950 were moved to the university museum building at Hakozaki Campus. 2015 Yahara's collection partially moved to the university museum building at Hakozaki Campus. 2017 The Kyushu University Museum test-released a few partial database of the botanical specimens. 2018 FU specimens deposited before 1949 move to the new building of Faculty of Agriculture at new Ito Campus. 2018 All Kanehira's specimens were gathered at a new room. Open storage exhibition was made by Dr. Mishima and volunteer students. 2022 The Kyushu University Museum prepared a new herbarium room in Ito Campus for FU specimens deposited after 1950 2024 FU specimens deposited after 1950 in Hakozaki Campus will move to Ito Campus The data updated in July 2023. **Date modified in Index Herbariorum**: 2023-07-03 > [!cite] This page is automatically generated • Data on this page were obtained from [Index Herbariorum](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/) on 2023-08-23. • Meaning of acronyms in TL-2 is not always the same as in IH. Consult list of original [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]] if you suspect acronym mismatch.