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.
Find well-known Australian plant groups including grevilleas, waratahs, banksias, hakeas and rainforest species.
Australia has 17 species of Callitris, commonly known as Cypress Pines.
Visit the Cumberland Plain Woodlands, a critically endangered ecological community that once covered much of the region before European settlement.
Mallees are small multi-stemmed eucalypts and have the greatest variety of foliage and flower form of all Australia's gum trees.
See the abundance of native Australian plants that have been used for food, tools and medicine.
This regal area of the Garden contains four layered garden spaces abundant with native and international plant life that showcase a variety of ornamental plants and stunning horticultural designs.
Experience the largest Rock Garden in the Southern Hemisphere at the Blue Mountains Botanic Garden Mount Tomah. This popular area boasts a vast collection of southern hemisphere plants, including waratahs, proteas and puyas, and pools that host an array of aquatic plants and ferns.
See towering Coast Redwoods, Giant Sequoias, Norfolk Island Pines and the 'dinosaur plant', the Wollemi Pine.
Explore Blue Mountains Basalt Cap Forest with stands of sassafras, coachwood and ethereal ferns.