Australian National Botanic Gardens

Australian National Botanic Gardens
Trees at the National Botanic Gardens
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TypeBotanical garden
Mottostudy and promote Australia's flora
LocationCanberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Coordinates35°16′44″S 149°06′33″E / 35.27889°S 149.10917°E / -35.27889; 149.10917
Area90 hectares (220 acres)
EstablishedSeptember 1949; 75 years ago (1949-09) by Ben Chifley and Sir Edward Salisbury
DesignerLindsay Pryor, Superintendent of Parks and Gardens in the Australian Capital Territory
Owned byCommonwealth of Australia
Operated byDirector of National Parks
Visitors450,480 (in 2010–11)[1]
Websiteanbg.gov.au/gardens/index.html
Official nameAustralian National Botanic Gardens (part), Clunies Ross St, Acton, ACT, Australia
TypeListed place
CriteriaB., C., E., F.
Designated22 June 2004
Reference no.105345
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The Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG) is a heritage-listed botanical garden located in Acton, Canberra, in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia. Established in 1949, the Gardens is administered by the Australian Government's Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment. The botanic gardens was added to the Commonwealth Heritage List on 22 June 2004.[2]

The botanic gardens is the largest living collection of native Australian flora.[3] The mission of the ANBG is to "study and promote Australia's flora". The gardens maintains a wide variety of botanical resources for researchers and cultivates native plants threatened in the wild. The herbarium code for the Australian National Botanic Gardens is CANB.[4]

  1. ^ "Australian National Botanic Gardens". Director of National Parks annual report. Australian Government. 2011. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  2. ^ "Australian National Botanic Gardens (part), Clunies Ross St, Acton, ACT, Australia (Place ID 105345)". Australian Heritage Database. Australian Government. 22 June 2004. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
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  4. ^ "Index Herbariorum: Search CANB". Retrieved 27 August 2020.