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Ellen Heimpel
@ellenheimpel.bsky.social
PhD student at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh studying monodominant tropical rainforests in central Africa 🌳 | Placement in curation with Kew herbarium team | Plant lover🌱 I amateur potter🌻 (she/her)
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What can you uncover when working with our dried plants? 🧐

PhD student @ellenheimpel.bsky.social spent 3 months uncovering plant specimens - including one that had gone unnamed for 54 years! Some may even be new to science 🌿🔍

Read about her experience 👇
www.kew.org/read-and-wat...
What’s it like working with Kew’s Herbarium collection?
From uncovering plant specimens to helping organise Africa’s ‘naming wall’, PhD student Ellen Heimpel shares what she learned during her placement at Kew.
www.kew.org
March 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Check out this blog I wrote about my time working with the Africa curation team at the Kew Herbarium! I talk about tackling the naming backlog of specimens from across Africa, and the journey of a specimen from the field to cupboard @rbgkew.bsky.social 👇🌱✨

www.kew.org/read-and-wat...
What’s it like working with Kew’s Herbarium collection?
From uncovering plant specimens to helping organise Africa’s ‘naming wall’, PhD student Ellen Heimpel shares what she learned during her placement at Kew.
www.kew.org
March 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM