Welcome! To the world of Australian plants, botany and horticulture!

The Australian National Botanic Gardens maintains a botanical information web portal for Australian plants.

This portal provides access to information about the Australian National Botanic Gardens in Canberra, and also the Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, jointly managed with CSIRO, in Canberra.

The Australian National Herbarium, managed as part of the Centre, contains Australia's largest research collection of preserved botanical specimens and provides the scientific validation for plants grown in the Gardens.

The Australian National Herbarium also maintains significant datasets for the naming and classification of our plants.

The Australian Plant Image Index is maintained jointly by the Gardens and the Herbarium, providing online images of thousands of native plants.

This portal also hosts the websites of several non-government bodies supporting Australian botany, horticulture and conservation.It also holds the flora data for the Australian Biological Resources Study, which includes the Flora of Australia online.