Paul Rees

Tropical Nursery Manager,
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew.
South African lover of succulents.
📸insta just_botanical.

[Paul Rees @Paul_Rees_]

Stapelia clavicorona. Love the greeny yellow colour of this clone.
#horticulture #plants #stapelia #succulent #Botanical

[Marcella Corcoran @HorticultureSci]

Massive thank you to our skilled Hort team in the tropical nursery @kewgardens for their time and knowledge sharing with our partners @RakotoniainaEr7 Madagascar @KewScience @FlashBlaise Turks and Caicos #KewTCI not possible without funding from Bentham Moxon Trust. Thank you!

[Yannick Woudstra @ywoudstra]

New preprint: An updated DNA barcoding tool for Aloe vera and related CITES-regulated species. https://t.co/Ey6nQvddQU @ol1grace @NinaRonsted @Paul_Rees_ @RseSolofo @KewScience @NHM_Denmark @RBGE_Science @TeamKMCC Come see me at #IBC2024 in Madrid next week for the poster!

[Yannick Woudstra @ywoudstra]

@ol1grace @NinaRonsted @Paul_Rees_ @RseSolofo @KewScience @NHM_Denmark @RBGE_Science @TeamKMCC The ultimate goal: the identification of 10 plants seized by border control at London Heathrow Airport. Many Southern African species, including the Lesotho endemic Aloe polyphylla. But also, worryingly, a critically endangered Aloe fragilis from Madagascar..

[Louise Isager Ahl @DKbotany]

Just picked this one up @Paul_Rees_ - such a beautiful book 🌵💚 Can’t wait to read it 🥰 @kewgardens #succulents #BooksWorthReading

[Paul Rees @Paul_Rees_]

@DanishArboretum @kewgardens You can preorder from here https://t.co/oA8rBLZDWs
Hope you like it.

[Paul Rees @Paul_Rees_]

Excited about my book coming out next month. Many hours behind a laptop screen has lead to this, hope you like it. Published with @quatrobooksuk and @kewgardens

[Paul Rees @Paul_Rees_]

@WildSuburban @kewgardens Thanks Katie

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@thejoeben_ @kewgardens Yes it will be available in the US

[Paul Rees @Paul_Rees_]

@GardeningSaul Thank you Saul that's very kind

[Miranda Luke @Miranda_j]

Very excited to reveal that I have written my first book! A Flower A Day is packed of histories, botanical facts and folklore about 366 plants - a seasonal guide to take you through the year - Preorders available now: https://t.co/wLabEl2OhW #newbook #newauthor @BatsfordBooks

[Meng Lu @Bio_Stars]

So excited that our paper got included in Feb highlights 😊 many thanks to all of my coauthors @FraderaSoler @FelixForest1 @TimBarraclough9 @ol1grace and my Kew’s colleagues who helped on this project again @Paul_Rees_ @aurelie_grall 💚 (photo: Crassula rupestris at Kew)

[Paul Rees @Paul_Rees_]

https://t.co/bTH7uSAZcr

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@thorogoodchris1 Don't think it is an Espostoa flowers are very different, looks more like Cleistocactus strausii ?

[Paul Rees @Paul_Rees_]

@orchidhunter @CamPlantsman @CUBotanicGarden @CUBG_curators The lumping of Stapeliads into Ceropegia by Peter has not been widely accepted.

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@loujnicholls Orius nymph ?

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@CamPlantsman @CUBotanicGarden @CUBG_curators Looks like a dark form. My other plants are more red

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@CamPlantsman @CUBotanicGarden @CUBG_curators Think it is subsp borealis

[Paul Rees @Paul_Rees_]

@alexsistero We got our seed from Ernst and Adam at Kirstenbosch who collected it some years ago. Not sure if they have it in there seed sales though.

[Paul Rees @Paul_Rees_]

Strelitzia reginae subsp. mzimvubuensis only know from along the lower mzimvubu river. With a white lower petal rather than a blue one.

[Paul Rees @Paul_Rees_]

@Solofo_Kew @TeamKMCC So sad such an amazing specimen is no longer around for all to see.