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 / -35.27889; 149.10917
Area	90 hectares (220 acres)
Established	September 1949; 74 years ago (1949-09) 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)[1]
Website	anbg.gov.au/gardens/index.html
Commonwealth Heritage List
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.^[2]

The botanic gardens is the largest living collection of native Australian flora.^[3] 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.^[4]