Australian Botany pages
About the Australian National Botanci Gardens, Australian National Herbarium, Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Biodiversity Informatics Facility, the Australian flora, Australian plants, botanical research and access to ... [... more]
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GOLDEN WATTLE OUR NATIONAL FLORAL EMBLEM
Photographs of wattle (Acacia) with 1920s female models suitably posed for effect. The photographs below were published in 1921 in a book titled Being a particularly unique Series of Photo-Pictures of Wattles, or Australian Acacias, in full ... [... more]
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Australian Plants on Postage Stamps
Information and illustrations of all Australian postage stamps depicting Australian flora. The 'BACK' and 'NEXT' buttons at the end of each stamp page move in chronological order of their issue. The 'STAMPS' button brings you back to this ... [... more]
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History of ANBG's Information Technology
An article by John Hilvert on the early history of the ANBG's web site, written in 1996 and published in 'Australian Net Guide'. In 1992, before the World Wide Web brought multimedia to the Internet, the Australian National Botanic Gardens in ... [... more]
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Deathcap Mushroom
The Deathcap Mushroom - Amanita phalloides, identification, emergency phone number, one of several illustrated pages introducing Australian fungi. You may reproduce the Deathcap information and photos, in any form and free of charge, for any ... [... more]
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Commonly Grown Kangaroo Paws
Kangaroo Paws - genus Anigozanthos - an introduction to these plants. The colour and form of kangaroo paws make them one of the most rewarding Australian native plants for the home garden. Kangaroo paws are also very good cut flowers. They are ... [... more]
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Thematic Plan 2002-2008, appendix 1 - ANBG
Themes for each Section in the Thematic Plan for the Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG). A PDF map of the Gardens shows the location of Sections by number (Taxonomic, Ecological or Horticultural) [... more]
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Plant Identification Bibliography
Cryptogams (mosses, lichens, liverworts, hornworts - see below for fungi) Myrtaceae (incl. eucalypts, melaleucas, callistemons (bottle-brushes), leptospermums (ti-trees)) All additions and corrections to this bibliography are ... [... more]
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Australian National Botanic Gardens - Activities
All about the Australian National Botanic Gardens activities in the near future, updated regularly. An additional summer 9.30am walk is conducted 1 October - 31 March. Photographs by Bill Bachman of the faraway places of Australia. Find out about ... [... more]
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Caring for Land
Caring for Land an exhibition and program of talks and workshops at the Australian National Botanic Gardens, ANBG, Canberra, 2007 The works in the exhibition deal with a number of questions connected to Australian appreciations of land. How do we ... [... more]
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The Display Glasshouse
Visitors guide to the display glasshouse at the Australian National Botanic Gardens. For information phone 6250 9540. (map and climatic conditions) The Gardens Display Glasshouse contains hundreds of species from sub-tropical and tropical ... [... more]
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Some very simple maps:
Some figures about the size and diversity of Australian plant taxa and vegetation cover The following summary statistics have been compiled to give an indication of the diversity of the Australian vascular flora. The statistics are very much ... [... more]
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