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A watercolour illustration I've just completed of Nepenthes murudensis, a tropical pitcher plant endemic to Mount Murud in Borneo.
Oil paintings I've just completed of a Rafflesia bud and flower, inspired by my encounters with the plants last year, on an expedition to Sumatra.
I'm giving a lecture in Oxford, Thursday evening, on Chasing Plants: how I scribbled and sketched my way around the plant world (+fell down cliffs/erupting volcanoes, into land mines....that kind of thing).
A few tickets still available. See you there!
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A montage of the watercolour paintings of Nepenthes pitcher plants I've done this year.
A watercolour I've just finished, depicting a king pitcher plant.
I accidentally used the wrong grade of paper, and nearly gave up several times.
But a king pitcher plant deserves to be completed.
Last night I completed a trio of pitcher plants in watercolour.
A watercolour painting I've just completed of some of the Nepenthes pitcher plants of Sarawak.
In our latest paper, Fred Rumsey and I discuss the outlook for this sharply declining species in the UK: greater broomrape (Orobanche rapum-genistae). Once our most common broomrape, it now hangs on in 20 vice-counties.
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I'm going to be speaking about these botanical oddities, and the work we do on them, at our online symposium this Thursday & Friday. It's free to sign up and there are still places available:
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