Press & Re-use

Everything on this site that I made — the photographs, the text, the phylogenetic dataset, the schematics — is published under the Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license. You are free to republish, adapt, or build on it. All I ask is attribution and a same-licensed share. This page is a shortcut for journalists, bloggers, plant-society editors, and anyone who’d like to feature the work without emailing me first for permission.

# Bios — copy-ready

One line.

Gabriele Zoppoli is a physician scientist in Genoa who keeps a 380-accession cloud-forest collection of carnivorous plants, miniature orchids, and Tillandsia under a self-built, open-source highland terrarium.

Two sentences.

Gabriele Zoppoli is Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Genoa and a clinician-scientist at IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, with research in liquid biopsy for breast cancer. Outside the hospital he maintains a 380-accession living collection of highland carnivorous plants, miniature orchids, and Tillandsia, and has built an open-source cloud-forest terrarium — documented here.

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Gabriele Zoppoli, MD PhD, is Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Genoa and Molecular Tumor Board coordinator at IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, with earlier stints at the NIH/NCI in Bethesda and Institut Jules Bordet in Brussels. His research is on liquid biopsy — cell-free DNA and single-molecule sequencing — for breast cancer. He grows over 380 accessions of carnivorous plants, miniature orchids, and Tillandsia in Genoa.

# Portrait

Additional crops (square, 3:2 landscape, 16:9) are available on request — email me with the size and intended use.

# Hero photographs

Six photographs that represent the collection well at print or cover size. All are CC BY-SA 4.0 and watermarked accordingly. Click to open the full-resolution JPEG.

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  Heliamphora ionasii 'Elegance' · Ilu-Tepui, Venezuela · pitcher plant endemic to tepui summits.

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  Heliamphora macdonaldae · Cerro Duida, Venezuela · one of the largest species in the genus.

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  Dracula pholeodytes · Colombian Andes · one of roughly 130 species of fungus-mimicking Pleurothallidinae.

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  Nepenthes argentii · Mindanao, 2,300 m · an ultra-compact tropical pitcher plant.

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  Sophronitis coccinea 4N · Brazilian campos rupestres · induced tetraploid form.

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  Vanda falcata 'Akausagi' · traditional Japanese fūkiran (富貴蘭) cultivar · displayed in a cloisonné pot on red lacquer.

For a broader selection, the homepage featured mosaic and the Heliamphora, Dracula, Nepenthes, and Dendrobium pages link every photograph at full resolution.

# Re-use terms

License. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0). The license text is at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/.

Suggested attribution. Any of:

• Photo: Gabriele Zoppoli · CC BY-SA 4.0
• © Gabriele Zoppoli, CC BY-SA 4.0 · highlandcloud.forest (replace with the canonical URL of this site)
• For print: G. Zoppoli, 2025 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Derivatives. You may crop, colour-correct, and integrate photographs into print or digital pieces. If you modify an image substantively, note it in the caption.

ShareAlike. If you produce a derivative work, it should be licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (or compatible) — this is what keeps the ecosystem of plant photography open.

What is not under this license. Third-party embeds (Google Fonts, D3.js, the Blowfish theme) retain their own upstream licenses. The terrarium control code is CERN-OHL-P-2.0.

# Data

The plant inventory and phylogenetic dendrogram are downloadable as structured data:

• Flat inventory (CSV) — collection.csv
• Dendrogram (JSON, D3 hierarchy) — dendrogram.json

These are CC BY-SA 4.0 and indexed as a schema.org Dataset on the dendrogram page for Google Scholar discovery.

# Contact

For interview requests, high-resolution files beyond what’s linked here, loan of a specific image for a cover, or corrections of fact — gabriele.zoppoli@unige.it. I reply, usually within a few days.