Thomas Pickering

Botanical horticulturist at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Passionate about carnivorous plants, dry-land ecology, conservation and Madagascar.

[Dr Timothy Utteridge @timutteridge]

Brassaiopsis minor B.C.Stone (Araliaceae). Interesting simple leaved araliad, very few collections from Trengganu #Malaysia #identification #herbarium

https://t.co/BkTOt5WuDF

[Marcella Corcoran @HorticultureSci]

Single island endemic @KewUKOTs @KewScience orchid from Montserrat, Epidendrum montserratense: stunning and absolutely thriving under the care of @kewgardens tropical nursery horticulture team.

[Rosemary Newton @RoseNewton123]

Our #DPLUS215 soil samples from Great Tobago arrived at Kew on Tuesday, looking forward to setting germination tests up in the quarantine house this coming week @UKBCFs @KewScience @KewUKOTs @BVIGovernment

[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!

[Chris Thorogood @thorogoodchris1]

The most beautiful lavender I ever saw was this wild, blue-flowered species (Lavandula coronopifolia) that seemed to draw its colour right out of the Dead Sea:

[Solofo Rakotoarisoa @RseSolofo]

Today visiting dry forest in SW site of our partner at #Mangoky_Ihotry and take the opportunity to see this amazing #Adansonia grandidieri the one of the biggest #baobab I ever seen so far

[Nina Davies @Nina__Davies]

This week has flown by @KewScience #Herbarium 🌿 a rare quiet moment at the end of the day as curation, research and digitisation pause for the weekend.

[Guy Venables @godfreychurch]

My cartoon for Thursday's @MetroUK @MetroPicDesk #kewgardens #thameswater #sewage on the news that the very stinky "corpse flower" has just bloomed in Kew.

[Thomas Pickering @tompickering1]

@godfreychurch @MetroUK @MetroPicDesk Hi Guy, I'm the glasshouses manager at Kew, I'd love to get a print of this for our archives, is there any way of doing this?

[Bill Baker @BillJBaker]

Well this is exciting! The vegetable ivory palm (Phytelephas) in the Palm House @kewgardens is starting to flower. Is this a first outside the #tropics?

[Stuart Williams @StuartWilliams_]

Correa lawrenceana (mountain correa), a shrub or small tree from rainforest and sclerophyll forest in eastern Australia

#MaranoaBG #Correas #Rutsaceae #ozplants

[Ian Dunt @IanDunt]

All the best Brits are Francophiles. And all the best French are Anglophiles. Long live the Entente Cordiale.

[Marcella Corcoran @HorticultureSci]

Amazing evening with our @TeamKMCC @KewScience colleagues who gave talks for the public, last night, on their field work and seed banking funded by @WestonFdn during @kewgardens fantastic orchid festival…Big shout out to our amazing Hort team too 👏

[Solofo Rakotoarisoa @RseSolofo]

Not sure about the species of this #Angraecum #Orchidaceae (could be A. caulescens) I have recorded N of #Antananarivo part of Central Highland #Madagascar but this is the tiniest Orchids flower I have ever recorded so far

[john milbank @johnmilbank3]

Starmer (without indicating this now) will need to covertly institute in effect the process of rejoining the EU from day one in office. I’m sure that he and most thinking people realise this. We cannot continue in isolation. https://t.co/G30bg1iH5L

[Toni Náufrago Perriflauta🔻🇸🇩 @NaufragoToni]

#𝑨𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒔 (S.Moore) Engl. & Diels (1901) 𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒔
Kenya & Tanzania coastal regions (coastal dry forest and in Brachystegia sp. woodland). Also found on the Zanzibar Island. Evergreen shrub-tree, up to 8 m (0-850 m asl).
IUCN: NT
#Annonaceae

[Toni Náufrago Perriflauta🔻🇸🇩 @NaufragoToni]

#𝑫𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒂 𝒄𝒊𝒕𝒓𝒊��𝒂 Lowrie & Carlquist (1992)
Fibrous-rooted, rosetted perennial, herb, up to 4 cm.
Kwongan sandplains (Geraldton Sandplains, Swan Coastal Plain) N. of Perth (mainly around Boonanarring). Australia.
Boonanarring N. R., & Moore River N. P.
#Droseraceae

[john milbank @johnmilbank3]

Extremely important piece. High immigration is because of Western Labour need in sectors where workers are mistreated and so indigenous people will not take on such jobs. The (postliberal) answer is to treat these sectors differently. https://t.co/LJnZ6dw8u4

[International Palm Society @IPS_PalmSociety]

Where to see #palms... Nypa fruticans at the Princess of Wales Conservatory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, #UK. 📷: Jungle Rebel CC BY 2.0. #Where2CPalms

[International Palm Society @IPS_PalmSociety]

🌿 Help Save Ravenea moorei this #GivingTuesday 🌴
The IPS and Kew are on a mission to preserve this endangered palm species, and we need YOUR support!
🤝 Be a part of the effort to ensure the survival of these palms!
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