‘Best job in the natural world’: seed collector enlisted as modern-day Darwin to document the world’s plants

Newly appointed expedition botanist Matthew Jeffery feels daunted' but inspired by his unique globetrotting role collecting wild species

It was described as the best job in the natural world": an expedition botanist for Cambridge University Botanic Garden who would follow in the footsteps of Charles Darwin and go on plant-collecting adventures around the world.

Within days of the job advertisement going viral, six people had sent it to Matthew Jeffery and suggested he apply.