Mount Annan Botanic Garden
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Banksia ornata, next to Gardens entrance
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| Location | Mount Annan, south-western Sydney, New South Wales, Australian |
| Coordinates | 34°04′13″S 150°46′00″E / 34.0703°S 150.7668°ECoordinates: 34°04′13″S 150°46′00″E / 34.0703°S 150.7668°E |
| Area | 416 hectares (1,030 acres) |
| Opened | 2 October 1988 |
| Operated by | The Botanic Gardens Trust trading the Botanic Gardens & Centennial Parklands |
| Visitors | 400,000 (in 2016) |
| Status | Open all year |
| Website | australianbotanicgarden |
The Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan is a 416-hectare (1,030-acre) botanical garden located in a hilly area of the south-western Sydney suburb of Mount Annan, between Campbelltown and Camden, New South Wales. It is the largest botanical garden in Australia, specializing in native plants, with a collection of over 4000 species. Officially opened in 1988, it was known as Mount Annan Botanic Garden, until 2011.
The traditional custodians of the land now occupied by the gardens were the Dharawal indigenous Australian people.
Later, it became dairy pasture land, before the land was acquired by the Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust in 1984 and The Garden was opened to the public in 1988 by the Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson. The Gardens are managed by the Botanic Gardens Trust trading the Botanic Gardens & Centennial Parklands, that also has responsibility for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney and the Blue Mountains Botanic Garden at Mount Tomah. The Trust is a division of the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage.
The original name was Mount Annan Botanic Garden and the name was changed in 2011 to The Australian Botanic Garden, Mount Annan.
From 2014, Save a Species Walk has been conducted to raise funds to support saving specific species.
The garden consists of Australian Bushland with cultivated displays. It is the Australian Plant Garden of the Botanic Gardens Trust and includes not only picnic areas and over 20 kilometres (12 mi) of walking tracks, but also a native flora research facility and the NSW PlantBank. Its themed features include:
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