The National Botanical Garden is located in Canberra, Australia and is owned by the Australian government. In the garden assembled the largest collection of Australian flora, and the mission of the garden is its study and dissemination of the knowledge gained.

When developed a plan to build Canberra in 1930, the creation of the Botanical Garden was recommended by the Advisory Council of the Federal Capital Territory. Place Garden was determined on Black Mountain, and in September 1949 took place the ceremonial planting of the first trees. Then the work began on the design of the garden, a collection of collections and the construction of a complex of services for visitors. Officially, the garden was opened in October 1970, Prime Minister John Horton. Today, the administration of the garden has 90 hectares of land on the Black Mountain, 40 of which are directly engaged botanical garden. Plans to use the rest of the land is developed in anticipation of funding.

The Botanical Garden is divided into thematic sections, which according to the taxonomy or natural ecosystems planted more than 5, 5 thousand plants. Here you can see a small valley with a humid tropical forest, stone garden with plants found in different habitats - from deserts to alpine meadows, endemic flora of the sandy areas around Sydney, numerous eucalyptus (about1 / 5 all kinds of eucalyptus trees growing in Australia), flowering shrubs Banks, telopei and Greville, myrtle trees and delicate acacia.

Australian National Herbarium is also located on the territory of the botanical garden. It contains the nation's largest collection of dried plants. Herbarium involved in the creation of an electronic database of botanical diversity of Australia - and that about 6 million plants! By the way, he Botanical Garden maintains several large databases of plants, such as "What's it called? "- A list of scientific names ever used for Australian plants. Also available a huge collection of photos.