Tim Utteridge
@timutteridge.bsky.social
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
Watching over my bird books…
‘Bark salon’. The remarkable bark painting room at the NVG Australia, Melbourne.
October 23, 2025 at 7:19 AM
‘Bark salon’. The remarkable bark painting room at the NVG Australia, Melbourne.
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
Doryanthes palmeri A.W.Hill (Doryanthaceae), giant spear lily, endemic to eastern Australia, flowering below Flinders Street Station along the Yarra River, Melbourne. #Australia
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
Digitising the Singapore Herbarium: the equipment now nearly set up and all on view in a public gallery. #herbarium
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
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
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
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...
powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:ls...
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
Rifle Range Nature Park, Gaharu Trail, very secondary forest, but a crystal clear stream and some large trees (Alstonia and Ficus). #Singapore
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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...
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
‘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
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
‘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
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
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
Thoughtful and sad messaging at the West Australian Museum.
June 18, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Thoughtful and sad messaging at the West Australian Museum.
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/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
June 4, 2025 at 12:06 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.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
White-breasted waterhen trying a similar tactic here in Singapore Botanic Gardens
May 31, 2025 at 3:59 AM
White-breasted waterhen trying a similar tactic here in Singapore Botanic Gardens
Sunset over the Bandstand, Singapore Botanic Gardens, 28 May 2025
May 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Sunset over the Bandstand, Singapore Botanic Gardens, 28 May 2025
Peter Crane explains Gnetales at SBG today. With Welwitschia and a packet of emping for props…
May 13, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Peter Crane explains Gnetales at SBG today. With Welwitschia and a packet of emping for props…
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
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.
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
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
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
Primula show in a traditional Edo style at The Tsukuba Botanical Garden, National Museum of Nature and Science, Japan. Primula sieboldii cultivars.
Treasures of the Singapore Herbarium. A small exhibition now showing in Singapore Botanic Gardens’ public areas.
April 17, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Treasures of the Singapore Herbarium. A small exhibition now showing in Singapore Botanic Gardens’ public areas.
Trees of New Guinea:
- Guide to all 693 tree genera
- Fully illustrated with photos and line art
- PDF available here:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
- 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
Trees of New Guinea:
- Guide to all 693 tree genera
- Fully illustrated with photos and line art
- PDF available here:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
- Guide to all 693 tree genera
- Fully illustrated with photos and line art
- PDF available here:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...