Acknowledgment of Country
We honour and respect all Elders and Traditional Custodians of the lands the Botanic Gardens of Sydney stand on. We acknowledge the lands as significant historical, ceremonial and traditional trade grounds.
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The lowest natural temperature ever directly recorded at ground level on Earth is −89.2 °C in Antarctica, 1983!
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Climate change, deforestation and pollution are just some of the threats humans are posing to the natural world.
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PlantBank is the award-winning home of plant conservation research, germplasm collection and storage in New South Wales.
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The Australian PlantBank safeguards plants for the future.
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Unrelated species evolve similar traits in order to survive.
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Do you know why eucalypts are often called ‘gum trees’? What part of the fig tree do bats love to eat? And why are macadamias so expensive?
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Did you know that all three of our iconic trees provide habitat for animals big and small?
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Listed as a Critically Endangered Ecological Community, only 6% remains of the 107,000 hectares of Cumberland Plain Woodland that covered western Sydney,
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Meet the passionate people who work behind the scenes of the Botanic Gardens of Sydney.