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Tim Utteridge
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Tropical botanist in Singapore - learning about SE Asian plants and biodiversity; sometimes observations on food, music and gardening (now on a balcony).
Watching over my bird books…
October 24, 2025 at 10:43 AM
‘Bark salon’. The remarkable bark painting room at the NVG Australia, Melbourne.
October 23, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Doryanthes palmeri A.W.Hill (Doryanthaceae), giant spear lily, endemic to eastern Australia, flowering below Flinders Street Station along the Yarra River, Melbourne. #Australia
October 19, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Digitising the Singapore Herbarium: the equipment now nearly set up and all on view in a public gallery. #herbarium
October 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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
September 18, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Gynostoma sp, a member of the Casuarinaceae - the she-oaks, flowering plants with equisetoid foliage and cone-like fruits.

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September 12, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Rifle Range Nature Park, Gaharu Trail, very secondary forest, but a crystal clear stream and some large trees (Alstonia and Ficus). #Singapore
September 7, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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
August 13, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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.
July 6, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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
July 6, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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...
June 20, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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
June 19, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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
June 18, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Thoughtful and sad messaging at the West Australian Museum.
June 18, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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.

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June 4, 2025 at 12:06 AM
White-breasted waterhen trying a similar tactic here in Singapore Botanic Gardens
May 31, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Sunset over the Bandstand, Singapore Botanic Gardens, 28 May 2025
May 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Peter Crane explains Gnetales at SBG today. With Welwitschia and a packet of emping for props…
May 13, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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.
April 27, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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
April 26, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Tsukuba Botanical Garden: Wisteria floribunda, Iris japonica, Rhododendron japonicum and R. macrosepalum. #Japan
April 26, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Tsukuba Botanical Garden: Wisteria floribunda, Iris japonica, Rhododendron japonicum and R. macrosepalum. #Japan
April 26, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Primula show in a traditional Edo style at The Tsukuba Botanical Garden, National Museum of Nature and Science, Japan. Primula sieboldii cultivars.
April 24, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Treasures of the Singapore Herbarium. A small exhibition now showing in Singapore Botanic Gardens’ public areas.
April 17, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Trees of New Guinea:

- Guide to all 693 tree genera
- Fully illustrated with photos and line art
- PDF available here:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
April 7, 2025 at 10:35 AM