Hilltop forest prevent the rapid run off of rainwater so enabling it to slowly sink in and replenish spring and streams in the valley below. Join us create an awareness on #drylandhillforest #youngchamp

It involved challenging fieldwork collecting leaf traits from canopies in Ghana & long-term forest inventories, led by Stephen Adu-Bredu, Kofi Affum-Baffoe, @olpetita Sophie Fauset Simon Lewis and many others. Look how hard it is to collect leaves from the tropical canopy! 3/6

Our #botanist-turned-#lichenologist, Dr Paul Kirika doing what he does best! He's now our only expert on #lichens and has described about 6 new #species in the last few yrs e.g. #Lecanora mugambii, #Bulbothrix kenyana. Keep it up Daktari! @KewAfrica @KewScience #BlackBotanistWeek

Fruits densely prickly, elliptic. Caesalpinia bonduc #Fabaceae A shrub sometimes scrambling along seashore or sanddunes in coastal Kenya. #FloraOfTropicalEastAfrica I nominate Ken Wambua Dr Timothy Utteridge Martin Cheek Moses K Langat #BackyardBiodiversity #ZYWC2020

Beautiful Crinium macowanii Bak. that flowers during dry season. It's fruiting signifies the start of rainy season. Common in grassland vegatation #Liliflorae #FloraOfTropicalEastAfrica

Hoping to be back in the herbarium @KewScience to work with Zanthoxylum specimens this week. Meanwhile today was a great day to visit KewGardens as a tourist. Grass garden looking divine, and rather taken with this tiny Strumaria gemmata in the Alpine House.

I'll start: Dr Li Wenliang.