Botanist @ Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, ex Kuala Lumpur, London & Cambridge. All images my own & from nature unless indicated. โ@botany.docโ on Insta
Melbourne, Australia
Joined August 2009
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Alastair Robinson retweeted
@RBG_Victoria scientists with @ParksVictoria, @DEECA_Vic and volunteers have reintroduced 230 CR ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ช๐ข ๐ข๐ถ๐ฅ๐ข๐ด๐ช๐ช into western Victoria following a successful trial with >80% survival and subsequent recruitment #RBGVScience ๐ธ: John Woodward & Noushka Reiter
Alastair Robinson retweeted
A collection of 23 watercolours by Elizabeth (Betty) Conabere (1929โ2009) in Victoria's precious State Botanical Collection has been scanned. They will be available to view on our website later this year!
๐ธ: Betty Conabere
#RBGVScience #royalbotanicgardensvic #watercolour
Alastair Robinson retweeted
A collaborative study involving @RBG_Victoria scientists reveals generalist pollinator strategy in critically endangered ๐๐ณ๐ข๐ด๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐บ๐ญ๐ญ๐ถ๐ฎ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ฎ, enabling more flexible selection of reintroduction sites! #RBGVScience
๐ธ: @TobiasHayashi
publish.csiro.au/BT/BT23110
Alastair Robinson retweeted
Our scientists are collecting leaf samples of endangered ๐๐ณ๐ฆ๐ท๐ช๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข ๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ท๐ถ๐ญ๐ข to ensure our ๐ฆ๐น ๐ด๐ช๐ต๐ถ collections represent the broadest possible genetic diversity of the species as insurance material against extinction events #RBGVScience #royalbotanicgardensvic
Alastair Robinson retweeted
This week our Orchid Conservation Project leader Dr Noushka Reiter oversaw reintroductions of Critically Endangered ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ช๐ข ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฃ๐ช๐ฏ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ช๐ช to native bushland increasing its chances of survival #RBGVScience #royalbotanicgardensvic
๐ธ: Ryan Phillips & @BotanyDoc
Hmm, I have serious food FOMOโthe hardest thing about leaving Malaysia behind, besides family, was the food culture. Looking forward to a 5-mountain climbing trip (and the food in between) in July!
A memorable life goal, meeting the #antplant #Myrmecodia #lamii, 3440 m elev., Lorentz National Park. Hiking up here invariably involves massive headaches, but the flora & wonderful Papuans are a real panacea against pain! #WestPapua, #NewGuinea #royalbotanicgardensvic #botany
Our latest work deals with the use of sniffer-dogs to [successfully] locate one of the world's rarest fungi, ๐๐บ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ค๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ด๐ช๐ด ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ด! Paper here, plus ABC article on my most recent repost #royalbotanicgardensvic cell.com/iscience/fulltext/Sโฆ
ALT Hypocreopsis amplectens, tea-tree fingers fungus. Image credit: Alastair Robinson
Alastair Robinson retweeted
After years of training, detection dog Daisy has used her incredible sense of smell to locate one of the rarest fungi in the world, tea-tree fingers. A fantastic collaboration between @ZoosVictoria & @RBG_Victoria #RBGVScience #royalbotanicgardensvic
abc.net.au/news/2024-05-17/fโฆ
