Scenic Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia -Telstra tower can be seen on left

The Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG) are heritage-listed botanic gardens located in Acton, Canberra, in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia. Established in 1949, the Gardens are administered by the Australian Government's Department of the Environment and Energy. The botanic gardens were added to the Commonwealth Heritage List on 22 June 2004. The botanic gardens are 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 gardens is organised in thematic sections, plants are grouped by shared taxonomy or are presented in ecological groupings that exist in nature. More than 5,500 species are cultivated. Displays include, Rainforest Gully, featuring plants for the rainforests of Eastern Australia; Rock Garden, a display of plants which occur in habitats from the desert to alpine areas; Sydney Region Flora, a display of the divers flora endemic to the sandstone formations of the Sydney basin; Mallee Plants, the mallees is the name given to multi-stemmed eucalypts and the shrubs and grasses associated with them; Banksias, waratahs and grevilleas (family Proteaceae); Callistemon, Leptospermum and Melaleuca (family Myrtaceae); Eucalypt Lawn, features about one fifth of Australian eucalypt species; Wattles (Genus Acacia). 11870