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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NSW Flora Online (PlantNET) is an open-source database managed by the Botanic Gardens of Sydney with descriptions and images of plants found in New South Wales.
We provide a comprehensive botanical identification service, with emphasis on wild (native and naturalised) and cultivated plants of New South Wales.
It is no secret that Australia is hot! In 2003, a whopping 69.3 °C was recorded in the shrublands of Queensland.
Plantclinic provides a wide range of disease diagnostic services for the public, industry and government agencies.
The lowest natural temperature ever directly recorded at ground level on Earth is −89.2 °C in Antarctica, 1983!
Climate change, deforestation and pollution are just some of the threats humans are posing to the natural world.
PlantBank is the award-winning home of plant conservation research, germplasm collection and storage in New South Wales.
Persoonia, known as Geebungs in eastern Australia, are notoriously difficult to grow and many are rare or endangered. Persoonia only occur in Australia.
The Rainforest Seed Conservation Project aims to increase the global capacity to conserve rainforest plants by investigating the storability of seeds of Australian species and developing methods for preserving those not suitable for seedbanking.