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Australian National Botanic Gardens

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Growing, studying and promoting Australia's flora

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GPO Box 1777
Canberra
ACT, 2601
AUSTRALIA

Tel: 06-2509450

In Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, it is Sunday, 10-Mar-96 15:17:48 EST

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About the Botanic Gardens

• An introduction to the Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG)
  
  
• Its scientific section, the Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research (CPBR)
  
  
• Its parent body, the Australian Nature Conservation Agency (ANCA)
  
  
• Its community support group, Friends of the Australian National Botanic Gardens

Databases

• Information about the ANBG's databases.
  
  
• Find a living plant in the botanic gardens.
• Find herbarium specimen information.
• Find records of plant photographs.
  
  
• About the Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS)

Maps

• The location of the ANBG in relation to Canberra's city centre, university and CSIRO.
• Detailed maps of the ANBG showing section numbers and buildings.

Coming events and attractions

• An art exhibition Its a Rare Thing Too for children and adults, starting Easter 1996.

Growing Australian Plants

• Wattles (Acacia ) in the Gardens with lots of photographs.
• Kangaroo Paws ( genus Anigozanthos ) for your garden.
• Banksias - ( genus Banksia ) for your garden.
• Bottlebrushes - ( genus Callistemon ) for your garden.
• Collecting and propagating subantarctic plants from Macquarie Island.

Horticultural Research

• Report on ANBG's Horticultural Research Program - February 1996.

In Flower this Week

• In Flower This Week at the Gardens

The Use of Plants by Australian Aboriginals

• Some plants used by Australian Aboriginals with illustrations.

Animals in the Botanic Gardens

• Common birds within the Gardens, (with drawings and calls for those with sound)
• Checklist of birds of the Gardens
• Frogs within the Gardens, (with drawings and descriptions)

Memorials within the Gardens

• Memorials, including plaques and named buildings.

Other ANCA Botanic Gardens

• Jervis Bay Botanic Gardens
• Norfolk Island Botanic Gardens

Australia-wide botanic gardens projects

• Council of Heads of Australian Botanic Gardens (CHABG)
• Directory of Australian Botanic Gardens and Arboreta
• Census of Plants in major Australian botanic gardens
• Australian Network for Plant Conservation (ANPC)

Botanic gardens management

• ANBG Plan of Management - Hypertext version
• ANBG Fire emergency procedures - Hypertext version
  (see also some resources on disaster preparedness from other institutions)
• Collecting permits in Australia - contacts and regulations.

For students and teachers

• Herbarium Internship Program (Bob Makinson)
• ANBG Education Service
• Plant Enquiry Service

For the more serious botanist

• Botanical biodiversity of Australia, some statistics.
• Leptospermum taxonomy an essay by Andrew Lyne.
• Grevillea wilkinsonii, its taxonomy and conservation by Bob Makinson.
• Wattles (Acacia ) in the Gardens
• Ferns and Man in New Guinea by Jim Croft.
• Eucalypt collaborative data set project
• Botanical or biological agencies in Australia
• Herbarium data transfer standards - HISPID, etc. by Jim Croft.
• Collecting permits in Australia - contacts and regulations.
• Bibliography of plant identification prepared by Bob Makinson.
• A selection of botanical glossaries

About the ANBG WWW server

• Information about the ANBG WWW Server.

Australian regional information

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Updated Wednesday, 06-Mar-96 09:43:32 EST, (www@anbg.gov.au)

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