People

Corcoran, Marcella R.

Job Title Botanical Horticulturist
Department Horticulture and Public Education
Section Hardy Display Section
Science Teams UK Overseas Territories
Wet Tropics: Africa
Joined Kew 2001
Foreign Language(s)

Qualifications & Appointments

Kew Diploma in Horticulture, 2004

Committee, Kew Guild

Student Union President, School of Horticulture, RBG Kew (2004)

West Africa working group, Kew Herbarium.

Role

Building horticultural capacity in Cameroon and assisting other Kew staff with fieldwork there.

Wet Tropics, particularly work in Cameroon. Propagation exchanging information and collection. Work in horticultural team in the Limbe Botanic gardens, Cameroon, mostly trialling propagation methods for tropical plants and exchanging ideas. Work in the field with Dr Martin Cheek’s team, collecting herbarium vouchers for checklisting as well as targeting species for research. On-going communication with the horticulture team at Limbe Botanical Gardens, Cameroon.