
Alastair Culham
@botanyrng
@thebotanist.bsky.social Biodiversity-ist, Botanist, keen gardener and grower. Views expressed here are my own. Photos my own unless marked otherwise.
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http://www.reading.ac.uk/biologicalsciences/about/staff/a-culham.asp 27-04-2009 15:35:46
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No prizes for guessing where I am today! Heading for Trinity College Dublin visiting the outstanding #botany department.


Last year Trinity College Dublin #Botany the sign was part painted as the painter had an accident part way through. Good to see the remaining 'otany' in glorious gold this year.


[#Botany] Notes on South-East Asian Diospyros L. (Ebenaceae, Ericales): commonly misidentified species in mainland South-East Asia ⤵️ ✒️ Nattanon Meeprom | Bom - Sutee Duangjai - Dr Timothy Utteridge - Alastair Culham & Carmen Puglisi DOI: doi.org/10.5852/ejt.20… #Ebony #flora #Ebenaceae #Ericales
![European Journal of Taxonomy (@ejtaxonomy) on Twitter photo [#Botany] Notes on South-East Asian Diospyros L. (Ebenaceae, Ericales): commonly misidentified species in mainland South-East Asia ⤵️
✒️ <a href="/nattanon_bom/">Nattanon Meeprom | Bom</a> - Sutee Duangjai - <a href="/timutteridge/">Dr Timothy Utteridge</a> - <a href="/BotanyRNG/">Alastair Culham</a> & <a href="/C_Puglisi/">Carmen Puglisi</a>
DOI: doi.org/10.5852/ejt.20…
#Ebony #flora #Ebenaceae #Ericales [#Botany] Notes on South-East Asian Diospyros L. (Ebenaceae, Ericales): commonly misidentified species in mainland South-East Asia ⤵️
✒️ <a href="/nattanon_bom/">Nattanon Meeprom | Bom</a> - Sutee Duangjai - <a href="/timutteridge/">Dr Timothy Utteridge</a> - <a href="/BotanyRNG/">Alastair Culham</a> & <a href="/C_Puglisi/">Carmen Puglisi</a>
DOI: doi.org/10.5852/ejt.20…
#Ebony #flora #Ebenaceae #Ericales](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GOWP-YtXkAAhEI3.jpg)

A last drink in Kennedy's after Trinity College Dublin examiners' meeting. Then heading home.




Alastair Culham Uni of Reading UoR BioSci The World Reimagined @ACallaZoo Dr M still going wild! R Lee Reading School of Art Arts Council England, London The Museum of English Rural Life Prospective students for the Zoology and Ecology degrees were impressed with Reading's green campus and commitment to sustainability 💚


A great job for a plant lover. Botanic Garden, University of Dundee is a great garden. jobs.ac.uk/job/DIM188/liv… #botany #horticulture

New full time academic post for field ecologist/zoologist Uni of Reading UoR BioSci Great facilities, colleagues, award winning campus and CIEEM Award winning MSc - Apply to join us! jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?…



A #botany pun. Dr M still going wild!

It's IBC2024 this week. I'm really enjoying catching up with old friends. Lots of great talks & posters. But sad to be missing my students graduation Uni of Reading today. UoR BioSci Dr Tomos Siôn Jones Nattanon Meeprom | Bom


Dr M and Alastair Culham would love your thoughts on botany teaching in the 21st century, please follow the QR code to electronic poster #2718 @IBC2024 #iamabotanist #IBC2024 Gatsby Education New Phytologist University of Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland


Help us design gardens for climate change. This UK focused survey asks which plants are doing well and which are failing in your garden rhs.org.uk/science/articl… The RHS The University of Sheffield Uni of Reading working together to forward UK horticulture. @BotanyRocks

Congratulations Jamie Thompson UoR BioSci on his latest paper. Very Gordon Rowley 😁 nature.com/articles/s4146… British Cactus and Succulent Society

Ever wondered what a nearly 90-year-old Uni of Reading PhD thesis looks like? Completed in 1936, “Studies on the genus Mentha” by E H Metcalf is a beautifully presented thesis which includes b&w photos, illustrations & letters to various national and international collaborators



New! Eleven species of Thrixspermum (Orchidaceae: Vandeae: Aeridinae) newly recorded from Thailand taiwania.ntu.edu.tw/abstract/2030 Excellent work by Sam! SamZa #orchid #taxonmy #Thailand Alastair Culham @KewScience National Parks Board Uni of Reading
