Australian National Botanic Gardens  & Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research www.anbg.gov.au  or  www.cpbr.gov.au

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Administration and affiliated agencies

• The ANBG's scientific section and herbarium, the Centre for Australian National 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 Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities (SEWPaC).
• The ANBG Library, part of the SEWPaC Library network.
• Key documents for the administration and planning of the Australian National Botanic Gardens.
• History of the ANBG's administration and its logo or symbol.

Introduction to the Botanic Gardens

• The Gardens website.
• About the Gardens.
• 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

Plants in the Gardens

• The Living Collection.
• Profile of Living Collection
• Plant Records Unit
• Search for a living plant
• Search for a Section and it's plants
• Seed Bank
• Field Trips
• Nursery
• Glasshouses
• Horticulture
• Landscaping
• Water wise - smart horticulture at the Gardens
• Themes
• Horticultural Resources
• Permits to remove plant material

Plant names

• Australian Plant Name Index - every Australian plant name ever published.
• Australian Plant Census - a nationally agreed list of current scientific names.
• Names for eucalypts - from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney.
• Catalogue of Australian Mosses - the name and publication references for mosses.
• Checklist of Australian Lichens - the names and publication references for lichens.
• Census of Plants in Australian Botanic Gardens - 1992 listings for major botanic gardens.
• List of Registered Cultivars derived from the Australian flora.
• Search all cultivar names ever published in Australia
• 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

• About the Photo Collections of the ANBG
• About the Australian Plant Image Index, donations and tax incentives.
• Conditions and fees for using images from the Australian Plant Image Index or the ANBG's web site.
• Search for digital images using Genus (and species). (> 25,000 images)
• Search for records of all plant photos using Genus and species (> 48,000 images).
• Search for digital images of plant photos by Family.
• Search for digital images by genus. - search from a list of genera.
• Search for non-plants photos using key words (landscapes, animals, national parks etc).
• The Australian Botanical Name Portal provides links to a wealth of information, including other photo sources.
• Policy – management of the image collection from the ANBG Management Plan.
• 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) [629KB] or for printing/zooming Coloured map of Gardens (PDF) [583K]
• Detailed B&W map of Gardens showing section numbers (300KB) (section numbers).
• Interactive map of Gardens showing sections and their plant contents
• Zones within the ANBG for management planning and public orientation.
• Map of ANBG and CSIRO showing location of Herbarium in relation to Gardens.
• Nursery-Herbarium location map for open days.
• Map of CSIRO site showing CANBR & Herbarium.
• Map of the ANBG in Chinese - a simplified map with Chinese characters
• Map of the Mt Gingera Annex (GIF)
• Map of ANBG in 1950 (JPEG)
• Generate maps for plant distribution using AVH

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 derived from the Australian flora.
• Search all cultivar names ever published in Australia
• What is a cultivar?
• How to name a cultivar.
• Australian Plant Breeders Rights (IP Australia website)
• Plant Breeder's Rights Act 1994

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.
• Lichens - part fungi, part algae, a fascinating look at lichens with an Australian emphasis.

Cryptogams (ferns, mosses, liverworts, hornworts etc)

• Australian Bryophytes - a comprehensive website on mosses, liverworts and hornworts.
• Australian Ferns - a comprehensive website on the ferns of Australia, plus notes on PNG ferns.
• The Plant Underworld - there's more to life than flowers. The full text and illustrations of a past exhibition in the Visitor Centre.
• Bryophyte Wiki - maintained by Chris Cargil
• 'What Mossy Thing is That?' [PDF] - a simple leaflet to identify small cryptogams in the ANBG, designed to print.
• Setting up a moss garden in a recycled kitchen sink.
• Lichens - part fungi, part algae, a fascinating look at lichens with an Australian emphasis.

Mistletoes

• Mistletoes and their biology, especially related to Australia.
• Mistletoe illustrated checklist for Australia, with hosts.
• Milstletoe reading list - references and books.

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, handles wedding bookings.

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.
• Carved Trees or Dendroglyphs - PDF of 'Burial Trees' by Lindsay Black (1941). (B&W version, best text)
• 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 - PDF resource booklet for the teachers.

Rare or Threatened Plants in Australia

• Threatened flora under the EPBC Act.

Music and sounds

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

Other Commonwealth Government Botanic Gardens

• Commonwealth Botanic Gardens - overview
• 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, SEWPaC 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.
• Australian Seed Partnership - seedbanking for Australia and the world.
• Construction of a new ANBG Nursery - opened in 2004.
• History of the ANBG.
• Chronology of significan events in the ANBG's history.

For the more serious botanist

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

The Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research (CANBR) home page.
The CANBR, 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 CANBR
– Contacts
– Interactive CD keys
– Strategic Plan for CANBR
– History of CANBR
– 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
• Australian Pollen and Spore Atlas - located at ANU
• 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)
• The classification of the genus Eucalyptus - from Euclid.
• Issues of Eucalypt taxonomy
• Issues of Acacia taxonomy
• Issues of Dryandra changing to Banksia (on WA's FloraBase)
• Botanical Districts of Australia, used by the various herbaria.
• Australian Systematic Botany Society
• 'Flora of Australia' - a publishing project by ABRS.
• '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

• Florabank Network - select 'Native Seed Supplier' in the "Type" pull-down menu.

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.

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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