About the Botanic Gardens (open daily 9am-5pm, extended to 8pm in January and February)
An introduction to the Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG) [en Français] [Esperanto]
A walk along the Main Path.	The Display Glasshouse	Current and coming activities
Plants in the Gardens	In Flower this week	Horticultural research
Animals in the Gardens	Education	Botanical Research
The Botanical Bookshop	Public Reference Herbarium	The Gardens' Library
Friends of the Gardens	Memorials in the Gardens	History of the Gardens
Facilities for hire and booking	Maps of the Gardens	Administration
Positions vacant	Recent media releases	Annual Reports - Management Plan

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Administration and affiliated agencies

• The ANBG's scientific section and herbarium, the Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research (CPBR)
• The ANBG's community support group, Friends of the Australian National Botanic Gardens
• The ANBG is part of the Commonwealth Dept of the Environment and Heritage known as 'Environment Australia'.
• History of the ANBG's administration.

Currrent and coming activities– details from the Visitor Centre 6250 9540

• Current Visitor Centre Exhibition - The Plant Underworld - there's more to life than flowers - an exhibition on mosses, liverworts and other cryptogams
• Summer Concert Series - provided by the Friends of ANBG - January & February, Saturday and Sunday evenings.
• Visit the Display Glasshouse - open 10am to 3am daily, accessable from the Main Path.

In Flower this Week

• In Flower This Week at the Gardens - updated each week by a volunteer.
• View past issues of 'In Flower This Week'.

Education - information for students and teachers

• ANBG Education Service - a natural learning experience.
• Teachers Resources - to download before a visit to the Gardens.
• Floral Emblem Education Kit - resources for the Centenary of Federation
• Herbarium Internship Program for tertiary students.
• Plant Enquiry Service
• 'Discover...' series - booklets for students (adapted for the internet)

- How to Propagate Native Plants
- The Plant Kingdom
- Some Australian Plant Families
- Aboriginal Plant Use in South-Eastern Australia
- Frogs with sound, (1238 K); Frogs without sound (39 K)
- Conifers in the Gardens

Plants in the Gardens

• Find a living plant in the botanic gardens - access our database..
• Find herbarium specimen information (registered users only - contact anhsirquery@anbg.gov.au with your project details to register).
• Collection or removal of plants from the Gardens - application for permit.

Plant names

• Find the correct name for an Australian plant - What's Its Name? including recent name changes.
• Find information about the names of Australian plants. (botanical names, common names, and cultivars)
• Find information about the scientific publication of plant names worldwide - International Plant Names Index (IPNI).

Photographs

• View images of some plant photos held in the National Index.
• Find records for all 20,000 plant photographs held in the National Index.
• About the National Plant Photograph Index and its use (and purchasing photos).
• Search by plant family for digitized images from the Index. (non-'frame' version).
• Some Australian plant images taken with a digital camera.

Maps

• The location of the ANBG in relation to Canberra's city centre, university and CSIRO.
• Coloured map of the Gardens - [large file 629K]
• Detailed maps of the ANBG showing section numbers and buildings.

Growing Australian Plants

• 'Growing Native Plants' - a selection of horticultural plant profiles.
• Basic tips on propagating Australian plants an educational 'booklet' for students.
• Wattles (genus Acacia ) in the ANBG and your garden, with photos.
• Tea-trees ( genus Leptospermum ) for Australian gardens, with photos.
• Kangaroo Paws ( genus Anigozanthos ) for your garden.
• Banksias - ( genus Banksia ) for your garden.
• Waratahs - ( genus Telopea ) for your garden.
• The waratah cultivar Telopea 'Braidwood Brilliant'.
• Bottlebrushes - ( genus Callistemon ) for your garden.
• Helichrysum 'Helping Hand' - a cultivar for the International Year of Volunteers.
• Growing Australian native ferns in cool climates. Other fern info.
• Native Climbing Plants for Australian gardens.
• Information on Wollemi Pine (Wollemia nobilis) from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney.

Cultivars of Australian plants

• About the Australian Cultivar Registration Authority (ACRA).
• List of registered cultivars of Australian native plants.
• What is a cultivar?
• How to name a cultivar.
• Australian Plant Breeders Rights (AFFA website)

Horticultural Research

• Application for permits to remove plants from the Gardens or for research projects in the Gardens.
• Report on ANBG's Horticultural Research Program - February 1996.
• Native Grass Restoration in the Australian Capital Territory Water Catchment - by Iain Dawson and Susan Winder.
  
• Grafting Australian Native Plants - a review of available data, by Iain Dawson.
• Plant Hardiness Zones for Australia - a review of the data and comparison with the US system, by Iain Dawson.
• Collecting, growing, and researching sub-Antarctic plants - Article 1, Article 2, Article 3, project report.

Fungi

• Deathcap Mushroom - Amanita phalloides - identification and poison information.

Animals in the Botanic Gardens

• Common birds within the Gardens, (with drawings and calls)
• Checklist of birds of the Gardens
• Mammals of the Gardens, with coloured illustrations.
• The Gardens' Bat Hotel, an article about research.
• Frogs (with sound, 1238 K), Frogs without sound (39 K), both with drawings and descriptions.
• Dragons in the Gardens.
• The Scribbly Gum Moth.
• The Common Brown Butterfly.

Facilities for hire or booking in the Gardens

• Forms to download to book indoor and outdoor venues and weddings.
• The Gardens' cafe - Hudsons in the Gardens Telephone: 6250 9465

Memorials within the Gardens

• Memorials, including plaques and named buildings.

Art Gallery of Australian flora

• Coloured illustrations of some Australian plants.
• Australian plants on postage stamps, illustrating all the stamps.
• Wattle 'nymphs' ! - art photography from 1921.
• The Waratah as an art motif in the early 1900's.
• Art book on the history of botanical illustration in Australia.
• Christmas flowers - some background information and history

The Use of Plants by Australian Aboriginals

• Some plants used by Australian Aboriginals with drawings of the plants.
• Aboriginal Plant Use in South-Eastern Australia with drawings of plants and artefacts.

Floral Emblems of Australia

• Floral emblems of Australia, its States and Territories.
• Federation Flowers for States and Territories to celebrate Centenary of Federation 2001.
• Floral Emblem Education Kit - resources for the Centenary of Federation.

Rare or Threatened Plants in Australia

• Threatened flora under the EPBC Act.
• 100 photos of rare or threatened Australian plants with reference numbers from NPPI.

Other Commonwealth Government Botanic Gardens

• Booderee (Jervis Bay) Botanic Gardens
• Norfolk Island Botanic Gardens

Australia-wide botanic gardens and other horticultural projects

• Directory of Australian Botanic Gardens and Arboreta
• What is a botanic gardens?
• Census of Plants in major Australian botanic gardens
• List of cultivars registered with the Australian Cultivar Registration Authority (ACRA)
• Search the PBR database of plants registered for Australian Plant Breeders Rights.
• Australian Plant collectors and illustrators - a catalogue with biographical links.
• Australian Botanic Gardens Forum the Council of Heads of Australian Botanic Gardens (CHABG)
• NSW Regional Botanic Gardens Network
• Australian Network for Plant Conservation (ANPC)
• Australian Native Food Industry Website, administered by RIRDC
• Florabank a joint project between Greening Australia, CSIRO Tree Seed Centre, EA and ANBG.

Botanic gardens management

• What is a botanic gardens?
• ANBG Plan of Management - 2002-2007
• ANBG Biodiversity Conservation Policy - 1998
• Lower Sullivans Creek Catchment Ecological Survey - in partnership with ANU and other stakeholders.

For the more serious botanist

• Botanical Research, Conservation, Management and Use of the Australian Flora:

The Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research (CPBR) home page.
The CPBR, including the Australian National Herbarium,
combines the herbaria and research activities of both the
Australian National Botanic Gardens and CSIRO Plant Industry.
• Application form for Permits to undertake botanical research in the Gardens.
• Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria.
• Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• Botanical biodiversity of Australia, some statistics.
• How to collect plants for the Australian National Herbarium and Australian National Botanic Gardens.
• All about Australian and world ferns.
• The classification of the genus Eucalyptus - from Euclid.
• Issues of Eucalypt taxonomy by Andrew Lyne.
• Studies in the Genus Leptospermum
• Australian Systematic Botany Society
• Collecting permits in Australia - contacts and regulations.
• 'Flora of Australia' - a publishing project by ABRS.
• The Families of Flowering Plants by L. Watson and M. J. Dallwitz - plant family characters (external link).
• A Glossary of botanical terms.

Booklists on selected topics

• Bibliographies on a range of topics, prepared by the Botanic Gardens Library.
• Bibliography of plant identification prepared by Bob Makinson.
• A selection of botanical glossaries

The Botanical Bookshop

• About the Bookshop at the Australian National Botanic Gardens.
• A select list of books about Australian plants available from the Bookshop.
• Order form for books.

Supply of seeds of Australian plants

• CSIRO's list of Australian Suppliers of Tree Seed
• Florabank a joint project between Greening Australia, CSIRO Tree Seed Centre, EA and ANBG.

Links, Clubs & Societies interested in Australian plants

• Society for Growing Australian Plants (SGAP) home page.
• Australian Plants on-line, journal of the Society for Growing Australian Plants (SGAP).
• Australian Native Plant Society, Canberra Region, Canberra's branch of the Society for Growing Australian Plants.
• Australian Systematic Botany Society (ASBS) home page.
• Australian Network for Plant Conservation (ANPC) home page.
• The Nursery Industry Association of Australia, the peak body for the nursery trade.
• Australian Institute of Horticulture, the association for professional horticulturists.
• Links to environmental web sites in Australia and overseas.
• Helpful links to web sites relevant to Australian plants and their conservation.

Database management in the Gardens

• Information about the ANBG's databases.

Australian regional information

• Canberra Tourist Information
• [ About Australia ] [ Canberra Weather ]

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