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Tim Utteridge

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Tropical botanist in Singapore - learning about SE Asian plants and biodiversity.

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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Dipterocarpus oblongifolius Blume (Dipterocarpaceae) - well named for the oblong leaves, more narrow when young. Often fruiting on and off throughout the year here in Singapore Botanic Gardens. Fruits often eaten.
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Tropical Plant Families Identification Handbook has a new 2026 printing - some tweaks to families and updates of species numbers (and a few errors corrected). E.g., Icacinaceae are no longer ‘Unplaced’ and Boraginaceae changed to reflect family debates. #botany
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Fagraea auriculata Jack (Gentianaceae), flowering now outside the SING Herbarium, Botany Centre, Singapore Botanic Gardens. Large flowers go from white, to pale yellow, to golden yellow and then over. #tree #botany #Singapore maps.app.goo.gl/tombtwAXqZAB...
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Wishing everyone on the beautiful island of Rota gets through storm #Bavi safe and sound. Still recovering after Sinlaku. #Bavi #CNMI #Rota Pictures of Songsong, N coast road and Mochong from mid June 2026.
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
A final latte site on Guam this morning (before returning to Singapore). In coastal limestone forest with Hernandia, Meiogyne, Aidia, Ochrosia, Eugenia, Premna etc (coconut palms as dominant) #Marianas #Guam #Chamorro #Pacific
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
University of Guam Herbarium (acronym GUAM) specializes in research on the insular floras of Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and all of Micronesia, with more than 57,000 specimens (46,000 phanerogams and pteridophytes) #botany #herbarium #Micronesia
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Ficus prolixa G.Forst. (Moraceae), 'Nunu', a magnificent specimen - we measured as having a 20 m girth, Rota #CNMI #Pacific #fig #tree
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Nesogenes rotensis Fosberg & D.R.Herbst (Orobanchaceae), a threatened Rota endemic on coastal limestone scrub. #botany #conservation #Pacific
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
PacificPeopleForest examines European colonialism in the #Pacific Islands (16–17th centuries), focusing on #Rota (Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands). Productive and busy week of meetings, field visits, networking and training #SBGScience pacificpeopleforest.csic.es
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
At lunch in the Gardens today, under a Podocarpus, it was 31°C, rather warm, and I’m watching and listening to … an Arctic Warbler, waiting to fly north (where they can call it a ‘Tropical Warbler’) #bird #Singapore #migration
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Gardenwise, the magazine of Singapore Botanic Gardens - a new bumper issue has gone online. Tributes to Dr Chew Wee-Lek (1932–2026) and Ruth Kiew (1946–2025), plus - Digitisation - Ethnobotany in Singapore's desserts - Botanical Art - SBG Archives www.nparks.gov.sg/sbg/research...
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Singapore Botanic Gardens team at Flora Malesiana 12 ‘Celebrating the World’s richest island flora’ - in Manokwari on the island of New Guinea. Lots of talks by the team, and SBG is the secretariat of the Flora Malesiana Board too.
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Wanderings in the forest of Gunung Meja, Manokwari with canopy emergents of Pometia, Inga, Palaquium and Pimelodendron on uplifted coral. #SBGScience #NewGuinea #Indonesia #Papua
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Heading slow and steady into 2026 like this chunk from Poring, Borneo. Happy New Year!
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Durian and panettone going cheap in Singapore (surplus Xmas stock…I’m not complaining!)
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Phang-Nga Bay. To Phuket for Christmas #Thailand
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Honoured to have been invited to FRIM, Kepong as a member of the 2025 Research Advisory Committee to discuss and help guide their excellent range of research into the future. Very pleased to meet all the FRIM staff and make new connections with specialists from across Malaysia.
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Kapur (Dryobalanops aromatica C.F. Gaertn., Dipterocarpaceae), when growing together and the same age (ie usually plantation) is famous for “crown shyness”. Fruiting heavily today in FRIM, Kepong. The bright pink radicle (seed root) jumped out from the leaf litter.
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Tropical Treats & Sweets! Coming soon to the Centre for Ethnobotany, Singapore Botanic Gardens. Featuring plants that make up our treats, and a wall of fame (with far too many of my cendol pics!) www.nparks.gov.sg/sbg/our-gard... #Singapore #dessert #puddings
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Flora of Thailand continues heading to the finish line…vol 16 just arrived 450 pages! (with my extremely tiny contribution - 7 species of Pittosporum) #flora #Thailand #botany #SBGScience
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Flying Rhamnaceae fruits - the day Daniel Cahen and I tested the aerodynamics of Ventilago fruits in Wing B of the Kew Herbarium. There’s a cool x-over physics/botany project there… #physics #flying #botany (No specimens were harmed in the making of this movie!)
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Expanding Ventilago to incorporate Smythea: new combinations in Ventilagineae (#Rhamnaceae) based on novel sequence data and phylogenetic analysis. Kew Bull (2025). rdcu.be/eTrK6 Ventilago lanceata Tul. and Ventilago novoguineensis Cahen, Utteridge & Henry Mill. nom. nov.
Ventilago lanceata Tul.Ventilago novoguineensis Cahen, Utteridge & Henry Mill.
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Two new species of Tapeinosperma (Primulaceae-Myrsinoideae) from Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. Kew Bull (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s12225… #taxonomy #botany #Primulaceae #Ardisia #PNG #SolomonIslands #Pacific
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Watching over my bird books…
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
‘Bark salon’. The remarkable bark painting room at the NVG Australia, Melbourne.
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Doryanthes palmeri A.W.Hill (Doryanthaceae), giant spear lily, endemic to eastern Australia, flowering below Flinders Street Station along the Yarra River, Melbourne. #Australia
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Digitising the Singapore Herbarium: the equipment now nearly set up and all on view in a public gallery. #herbarium
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Prof Francis Hallé speaks at Singapore Botanic Gardens - “New insights into plant architecture.” A real privilege to hear him talk through the different models so succinctly and accurately illuminated with his illustrations. #SBGScience
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Gynostoma sp, a member of the Casuarinaceae - the she-oaks, flowering plants with equisetoid foliage and cone-like fruits. powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:ls...
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Rifle Range Nature Park, Gaharu Trail, very secondary forest, but a crystal clear stream and some large trees (Alstonia and Ficus). #Singapore
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Tools of the trade. Trying the Staedtler for the first time. Particularly like the Blackwing pencils with replacement erasers. Really useful for #curation ‘on the fly’. #herbarium #identification #SbgScience
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Come along to our 2025 Heritage Festival- light show, concerts, tours, movies, orchid show, behind the scenes, exhibitions!! 44 page programme of activities for all.
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
This weekend is the 10th anniversary of Singapore Botanic Gardens’ inscription as Singapore’s first UNESCO World Heritage Site! Inscribed on 4 July 2015, only one of 3 botanic gardens on the WH list @unesco.org
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
A quick visit and tour of the Western Australian Herbarium (PERTH) - a collection of more than 845,000 dried specimens of plants, algae, bryophytes (mosses, liverworts, hornworts), lichens, fungi & slime moulds. Thanks to Juliet Wege (ex Kew ABLO) for the tour! www.dbca.wa.gov.au/science/rese...
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Xanthorrhoea sp. (Asphodelaceae), Darwinia meeboldii C.A.Gardner ‘Cranbrook Bell’ (Myrtaceae), Eucalyptus youngiana F.Muell. ‘Large-fruited Mallee’ (Myrt.) and Banksia ashbyi Baker f. ‘Ashby's Banksia’ (Proteaceae), at King’s Park and Botanic Garden #Perth #Australia
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
King spider orchid and other orchid models; Banksia archaeocarpa (c. 40 million years old; and stuffed thylacine from the Hobart Museum in 1896. Western Australian Museum Boola Bardip #Perth
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Thoughtful and sad messaging at the West Australian Museum.
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Identify, name and curate! Updating all Rapanea to Myrsine here in the Singapore Herbarium SING and found 2 sheets of the type of Systellantha serratifolia Drinkell & Utteridge, previously only had a single holotype in our original paper. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
White-breasted waterhen trying a similar tactic here in Singapore Botanic Gardens
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Sunset over the Bandstand, Singapore Botanic Gardens, 28 May 2025
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Peter Crane explains Gnetales at SBG today. With Welwitschia and a packet of emping for props…
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Enkianthus perulatus (Miq.) C.K.Schneid. (Ericaceae), a Japan native used for hedging. Delicate chandeliers of pure-white flowers. (Note the sakura petals - from later flowering doubles.) A gorgeous genus, especially Enkianthus quinqueflorus Lour., a Chinese new year flower.
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Dusk along the fields flanking the Hanamuro River, Amakubo, Tsukuba City. Water seeping across the fields as the taps are fully opened to flood the rice fields. #Japan
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Tsukuba Botanical Garden: Wisteria floribunda, Iris japonica, Rhododendron japonicum and R. macrosepalum. #Japan
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Tsukuba Botanical Garden: Wisteria floribunda, Iris japonica, Rhododendron japonicum and R. macrosepalum. #Japan
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Primula show in a traditional Edo style at The Tsukuba Botanical Garden, National Museum of Nature and Science, Japan. Primula sieboldii cultivars.
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Treasures of the Singapore Herbarium. A small exhibition now showing in Singapore Botanic Gardens’ public areas.
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Trees of New Guinea: - Guide to all 693 tree genera - Fully illustrated with photos and line art - PDF available here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Hanguana anthelminthica (Blume ex Schult. & Schult.f.) Masam. Staminate plants in bloom, filling the air with a honey scent. (Thanks Matti Niissalo for the ID.) At Keppel Wetland boardwalk, Singapore Botanic Gardens maps.app.goo.gl/5HC5YbTLs2W6... powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:ls...
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Our gorgeous new email banner celebrating Singapore Botanic Gardens! #SBGScience #SG60
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