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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 Australian Government Department of the Environment and Water Resources.
• The ANBG Library, part of the DEH Library network.
• Key documents for the administration and planning of the Australian National Botanic Gardens.
• History of the ANBG's administration.

Introduction to the Botanic Gardens

• Introduction with coloured illustration thumbnails to enlarge.
• Introduction in plain text
• Introduction in French
• Introduction in Chinese
• Introduction in Esperanto

Activities at the Australian National Botanic Gardens

• Public talks, exhibitions, etc

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 - programs, teachers' resources and booking details.
• Herbarium Internship Program for tertiary students.
• Resource material suitable for teachers
  - How to Propagate Native Plants
  - The Plant Kingdom
  - Some Australian Plant Families

Plants in the Gardens

• Find a living plant in the botanic gardens - access our database.
• Find information on managing the Living Collection of the ANBG.
• Thematic Plan for the Sections (garden beds) in the Gardens.
• Plant labels in the Gardens.
• Find herbarium specimen information (some data for registered users only - contact anhsirquery@anbg.gov.au with your project details to register).
• A look at conifers in the Gardens with a suggested trail.
• 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.
• Plant Enquiry Service identification of plants brought to the Visitor Centre.
• Common names of Australian plants.
• Find information about the names of Australian plants. (botanical names, common names, and cultivars)
• Quickly link to a range of plant name and other information with SpeciesLink
• 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 Australian Plant Image Index (APII).
• Find records for all 20,000 plant photographs held in the National Index.
• About the Australian Plant Image Index and its use (and purchasing photos).
• Search by plant family for digitized images from the Index. (non-'frame' version).
• View the images on Flickr that visitors have taken in the ANBG.

Maps

• The location of the ANBG in relation to Canberra's city centre, university and CSIRO (B&W).
• Coloured map of Gardens (JPG) [629K] or for printing/zooming Coloured map of Gardens (PDF) [583K]
• Detailed B&W PDF map of Gardens showing section numbers and buildings.
• Map of ANBG and CSIRO showing location of Herbarium in relation to Gardens.

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.
• Some Drought Tolerant Native Plants from our experience at ANBG
• Eucalypts for northern hemisphere cold climates - suggestions from the literature.
• Experience growing Australian plants in Texas USA.
• Native plants for Bonsai – an exhibition at the ANBG in 2005.
• Setting up a moss garden in a recycled kitchen sink.
• 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)
• Some native and non-native cultivars are listed on the Burnley web site.

Horticultural Research

• Application for permits to remove plants from the Gardens or for research projects in the Gardens.
• 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, 1988 project report.
• Australian native plants as commercial foods - research undetaken by CSIRO.

Fungi

• Fungi of Australia - an introduction to macro-fungi - major groups, mycogeography, aboriginal uses, history of study etc.
• Deathcap Mushroom - Amanita phalloides - identification and poison information.

Cryptogams (ferns, mosses, liverworts, hornworts etc)

• The Plant Underworld - there's more to life than flowers. The full text and illustrations of a past exhibition in the Visitor Centre.
• Australian fresh-water algae from the NSW Herbarium web site.
• Setting up a moss garden in a recycled kitchen sink.

Animals in the Botanic Gardens

• Common birds within the Gardens, (with drawings and calls)
• Checklist of birds of the Gardens
• Illustrated Checklist of Birds of the Gardens
• Bird portraits by Neville Cayley
• 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.
• Reptiles in the Gardens.
• Dragons in the Gardens.
• The Scribbly Gum Moth.
• The Common Brown Butterfly
• The Macleay Swallowtail Butterfly

Facilities for hire or booking in the Gardens

• Venues and booking forms 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 in the Gardens

• Artist in Residence - Julie Ryder, the Gardens' artist working on bryophytes, 2004-2005.
• Public Art Program for the ANBG – Commitee, Policy, and Master Plan.
• Sentinels – Sculptural bollards by Simon Taylor.
• Friends Cascades – Flowform sculpture near the Visitor Centre.

Illustrations of Australian flora

• Coloured illustrations of some Australian plants.
• Australian plants on postage stamps, illustrating all the stamps.
• Poisonous Plants of S.E. Australia - a portfolio of illustrations.
• Proteaceae - a botanical line illustration and PDF for each genus.
• Myrtaceae, Leptospermum alliance - a botanical line illustration and PDF for each genus.
• Wattle 'nymphs' ! - art photography from 1921.
• Wattle illustrations from 'A Popular Guide to the Wildflowers of NSW' 1914
• Collin Woolcock illustrations - a selection donated to the ANBG.
• 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
• Botanical illustrations from Cook's voyage to Australia with Banks and Solander, 1768-1771 (NHM).
• Artist in Residence at the ANBG 2004/5

The Use of Plants by Australian Aboriginals

• Some plants used by Australian Aboriginals with drawings of the plants, the Aboriginal Trail leaflet for ANBG.
• Aboriginal Plant Use in South-Eastern Australia with drawings of plants and artefacts for ANBG education programs.
• Aboriginal Plant Use - NSW Southern Tablelands by Daphne Nash.
• Aboriginal use of fungi - part of a comprehensive fungi web site.
• Indigenous weather knowledge - BOM's web site explaining Aboriginal concepts of growing seasons.

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 teachers.

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

Music and sounds

• Wattle and Waratah - sheet music.
• Links to Australian flora sheet music at the National Library of Australia.
• Bird calls recorded in the Australian National Botanic Gardens.
• Frog calls recorded in the Australian National Botanic Gardens.

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 garden?
• Census of Plants in major Australian botanic gardens
• Botanic Gardens and Climate Change - a resource site
• List of cultivars registered with the Australian Cultivar Registration Authority (ACRA)
• Australian Botanic Gardens Forum the Council of Heads of Australian Botanic Gardens (CHABG)
• Search the PBR database of plants registered for Australian Plant Breeders Rights.
• Australian Plant collectors and illustrators - a catalogue with biographical links.
• NSW Regional Botanic Gardens Network
• Australian Network for Plant Conservation (ANPC)
• Australian Native Food Industry Website, administered by RIRDC
• WaterWise gardening - gardens in a time of reduced water availablility
• Climate Change and botanic gardens - a major issue confronting gardens
• Florabank a joint project between Greening Australia, CSIRO Tree Seed Centre, DEH and ANBG.

Botanic gardens management

• What is a botanic gardens?
• Botanic Gardens and Climate Change - a resource site
• Water conservation strategies at the ANBG
• Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) - linking Gardens throughout the world.
• ANBG Plan of Management - 2002-2007
• ANBG Biodiversity Conservation Policy - 1998
• Thematic Plan for the Sections (garden beds) in the ANBG.
• The Plant Records Unit. - keeping the ANBG labeled and mapped.
• The Seed Bank - storing seed at the ANBG.
• Construction of a new ANBG Nursery - opened in 2004.
• History of the ANBG decade by decade.
• Chronology of significan events in the ANBG's history.
• 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.
– Programs within the CPBR
– Contacts
– Interactive CD keys
– Strategic Plan for CPBR
– History of CPBR
– Staff and Visitor Handbook
– Student Botanical Internships
– Summer Scholarships

• Australian National Herbarium
• Application form for Permits to undertake botanical research in the Gardens.
• IBIS database - Integrated Botanical Information System, linking all the Gardens and Herbarium data.
• 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.
• Collecting and preserving plant specimens (from the Queensland Herbarium, a PDF to download)
• All about Australian and world ferns.
• All about Australian fungi - the macro-fungi with visible fruiting bodies.
• The classification of the genus Eucalyptus - from Euclid.
• Issues of Eucalypt taxonomy
• Issues of Acacia taxonomy
• Botanical Districts of Australia, used by the various herbaria.
• Australian Systematic Botany Society
• '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).
• 'Index Herbariorum' world-wide abbreviations for herbaria - from the New York Botanic Gardens
• A Glossary of botanical terms.

History of Australian botany

• Early collections of botanical specimens - maps and herbarium specimens, Banks & Cook, and Brown & Flinders.
• History of fungi studies in Australia - part of an extensive fungi site.
• Collectors and illustrators of the Australian flora - dates and occupations.
• Biographies of people involved with Australian botany

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
• Access the ANBG Library.

The Botanical Bookshop

• The Bookshop at the Australian National Botanic Gardens, most books in stock are listed.
• 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.

Nurseries supplying Australian native plants

• Specialist retail nurseries of Australian native plants - maintained by the Australian Native Plant Society.

Links, Clubs & Societies interested in Australian plants

• Society for Growing Australian Plants (ASGAP) 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.
• ASGAP Blog "Gumnuts" - news of interest to Aussie plant enthusiasts.
• The Australian Bushfood Ring - Independent Resources for Bushtucker Enthusiasts.
• The Australian Bushfood and Native Medicinal Forum - a forum is for discussion of Australian native foods and medicines
• Field Naturalists Society, Canberra Region, a local club for people interested in biodiversity.
• 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.
• Botanic Gardens around the world from BGCI's database.
• 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

• Early history of the ANBG's gopher/web development.
• Parliamentary questions on databasing at the Australian National Herbarium 1986-1987.
• Information about the ANBG's databases.

Australian regional information

• Canberra Tourist Information
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