National Botanic Gardens of Australia located in Canberra and is the property of the Australian government. Garden collected the largest collection of Australian flora, and the mission of the garden lies in its study and dissemination of the knowledge gained.

When he developed the plan for the construction of Canberra in 1930-ies, the creation of the Botanical garden was recommended by the Advisory Council of the Federal Capital Territory. The garden was identified on the Black Mountain, and in September of 1949 held a ceremonial planting of the first trees. Then work began on designing the garden, a collection of collections and the construction of a complex of services for visitors. It was officially opened in October 1970, Prime Minister John Gorton. Today the administration of the garden owns 90 acres of land on Black Mountain, 40 of which are directly occupied Botanical garden. Plans to use the rest of the land still being developed in anticipation of funding.

The Botanical garden is divided into themed sections, in which according to taxonomy or natural ecosystems planted more than 5, 5 thousand plants. Here you can see a small valley with tropical rain forest, rock Garden with plants found in different habitats, from deserts to Alpine meadows, endemic flora of the sandy areas around Sydney, many eucalypts (about1/5 of all species of eucalyptus growing in Australia), flowering shrubs the banksias, telopea and graveley, Myrtle trees and delicate acacia.

The Australian national Herbarium is also located on the territory of the Botanical garden. Here is the largest in the country collection of dried plants. The herbarium is involved in the creation of an electronic database of Botanical diversity of Australia – which is about 6 million plants! By the way, the Botanical garden supports several large databases of plants, for example, "what is it called? - a list of scientific names used for the Australian plants. Also available a huge collection of photos.