Sandy Knapp
Botanist… taxonomist of potatoes, tomatoes etc. and passionate advocate for nature everywhere 🌱
- It’s been a great meeting… I think my brain might burst with me and exciting information and insights! #SOLRUB2025
- @sandyknapp.bsky.social opens the #SOLRUB2025 meeting talking about how wonderful are #Solanaceae species. New dating results are coming out soon. The family is older that we thought. Almost 90 MY. She closes her presentation talking about the importance of community.
- So… climate change… Lagerstroemia (crepe myrtle) as a street tree in London! A lovely splash of pink in late summer! #londonlife
- Exciting arrival in the post today… hard copy of The Madrid Code! @iaptglobal.bsky.social
- Same plant… summer!
- Then and now…. Pokeberry in London! #iamabotanist
- Was such great fun! And to complete your potato week new paper out on origin of the mighty spud @cellpress.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
- Reposted by Sandy KnappThe June solstice has passed, which means we have a fresh update for our WFO Plant List! The big news since December is we now have more than 200 named co-authors on the WFO Plant List. Watch to see what else is new and visit worldfloraonline.org to browse the Plant List.
- Just home from a wonderful time talking about potatoes on @infinitemonkeycage.bsky.social with amazing people… feel the potato love, some of us got quite emotional 🥔Played out by Helen Anahita Wilson on the potato piano.. listen out for it in August!
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- So, leaf shape is quite (!) variable in Solanum….. can fool one into thinking things are different.. figuring taxa out requires more than a glance! Here’s an extreme example in Solanum albidum ….. #iamabotanist
- Help your local British herbarium to join in the digitisation journey! My blog post in BSBi News bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2025/03/help... with a plea to express interest in the DiSSCo UK programme engagementhub.ukri.org/ahrc-infrast...
- The beautiful species of the Solanum hexandrum group -all endemic to Brazil -treated in our latest monograph in @phytokeys.pensoft.net thanks Leandro and Yuri for being awesome coauthors! phytokeys.pensoft.net/article/1382...
- Then and now…. Pokeberry in London! #iamabotanist
- The joy of beautiful plant specimens! Thanks for the loan MO! #solanaceae
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