Australian National Botanic Gardens
| Australian National Botanic Gardens | |
|---|---|
Trees at the National Botanic Gardens | |
| Type | Botanical garden |
| Motto | study and promote Australia's flora |
| Location | Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia |
| Coordinates | 35°16′44″S 149°06′33″E / 35.27889°S 149.10917°E |
| Area | 90 hectares (220 acres) |
| Established | September 1949 by Ben Chifley and Sir Edward Salisbury |
| Designer | Lindsay Pryor, Superintendent of Parks and Gardens in the Australian Capital Territory |
| Owned by | Commonwealth of Australia |
| Operated by | Director of National Parks |
| Visitors | 450,480 (in 2010–11) |
| Website | anbg |
| Official name | Australian National Botanic Gardens (part), Clunies Ross St, Acton, ACT, Australia |
| Type | Listed place |
| Criteria | B., C., E., F. |
| Designated | 22 June 2004 |
| Reference no. | 105345 |
The Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG) is a heritage-listed botanical garden located in Acton, Canberra, in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia. Established in 1949, the Gardens is administered by the Australian Government's Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment. The botanic gardens was added to the Commonwealth Heritage List on 22 June 2004.
The botanic gardens is the largest living collection of native Australian flora. The mission of the ANBG is to "study and promote Australia's flora". The gardens maintains a wide variety of botanical resources for researchers and cultivates native plants threatened in the wild. The herbarium code for the Australian National Botanic Gardens is CANB.