Tim Upson (Secretary)

Tim Upson Tim has been curator of Cambridge University Botanic Garden since 1997 with responsibility for its 39 acres and collection of 8,000 species. A graduate of the Kew Diploma course, he later undertook an MSc and then PhD in Plant Systematics at the University of Reading. He has a special interest in the Lamiaceae and particularly the genera Rosmarinus and Lavandula, including their horticultural taxonomy; he published a monograph on the latter with Susyn Andrews in 2004 as part of the Botanical Magazine Monograph series. He also contributed to the special part issue of Curtis's Botanical Magazine on Cambridge University Botanic Garden published in 2006 as well as various accounts to The European Garden Flora. Tim currently serves on the Board of Directors of PlantNetwork, as vice-chairman on the Plant Conservation Committee of Plant Heritage and is an editorial consultant for The Plantsman.

Tim also has a keen interest in plant conservation, the Mediterranean and island floras and has undertaken several plant-collecting expeditions in relation to his research. More recently he has led botanical tours to various parts of the Mediterranean, China and Chile. Each year he helps to run the University's field course to Portugal.

Cambridge University Botanic Garden: http://www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/
Plant Heritage (or NCCPG): http://www.nccpg.com/
PlantNetwork: http://plantnetwork.org/

This profile was updated 03 March 2010.

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