Roger Howard Phillips MBE (16 December 1932 – 15 November 2021) was a British photographer, botanist and writer.

[2][4] He took pictures for the album Goodbye for rock band Cream, on a commission from his friend Alan Aldridge, and later took pictures for the Jack Bruce albums Songs for a Tailor and Out of the Storm.

[3] He is best known as an expert on mushrooms and roses who wrote more than forty books on gardening and wild plants and fungi; many with Martyn Rix.

[3] In the 2010 New Year Honours, Phillips was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE), for his "services to London Garden Squares".

[7] Phillips' 1958 marriage to Pammy Wray ended in divorce; they had a son, and she predeceased him.