The logo for the Australian National Botanic Gardens

A representation of a Banksia flower head and fruiting 'cone' on an outline map of Australia.

The illustration is stylised and based loosely on Banksia marginata, the only species native to the Canberra region, but is not intended to represent any particular species. There is at least one species of Banksia growing in every state and territory of Australia.

Designer: Murray Fagg

Date: 1978

Information on the genus Banksia.

The logo 'boxed'

After the incorporation of the Australian National Botanic Gardens into the Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service (ANPWS), each reserve and many of the administrative units within that organisation were given a unified style of logo, either new or incorporating a pre-existing logo into the new format. These 'boxed' logos were also used by the Australian Nature Conservation Agency (ANCA) which became the administrative name for the ANPWS.

Designer: Terry Woolcott

Web site use

The use of this logo coincided with the development of the Australian Nationalal Botanic Gardens web site from its earlier gopher site on the Internet. It quickly became a recognised symbol for the web site both in Australia and overseas. The role of ANCA was incorporated into the Department of Environment and Heritage in 1996 under the name of 'Environment Australia', and these 'boxed' logos ceased to be used.

Because of its high profile and recognition on the web, and its use in some school text books on web site access for botanical information, this logo has continued to be used for the Botanic Gardens' web site.