Magda Upton

Digital Botany Focus Issue

Interview with Bob Allkin about Name Games: How to Untangle the Web of Plant Names and Uses?

What name do you go by? Does everyone call you the same name everywhere you go? Probably not, and the same stands for plants. The names

Magda Upton · 22 Jun 2026

Digital Botany Focus Issue

Lights, Camera, Action! Behind the lens of Kew’s mass herbarium digitisation project

Anyone with a smartphone probably has a camera roll of images waiting to be sorted through. Now imagine you have millions of images to process, and

Magda Upton · 10 Jun 2026

Digital Botany Focus Issue

Heather Cole: Best Tricks, Equipment and Software for Digitisation

Everyone knows that it is important to have the right tools for the job, whether collecting plants in the field for scientific research or cooking them

Magda Upton · 8 Jun 2026