Author: David Harris
David Harris is Herbarium Curator at RBGE.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6801-2484
The largest trees in tropical rain forests are poorly know. A paper just published sheds some light on these amazing giants.
At the Botanics we discover new species – it’s one of the things, in addition to growing plants and telling people about them, that we have been doing…
Desplatsia is a genus of small trees growing in the forests of West and Central Africa. Their fruits are rather large and adored by elephants. There was some…
In 1994 I was in a forest in the Central African Republic standing in front of a tree. I remember the moment well. I turned to my companion,…
In the forests of central Africa there is an amazing species of tree. It is called Gilbertiodendron dewevrei. Fortunately, the people who live there have shorter names for…
Zoë Goodwin, who first arrived at RBGE as an MSc student, became a member of staff, and is now a PhD student (University of Oxford), has just published…