Adelaide Botanic Garden wins international tourism award
21 November 2023
Adelaide Botanic Garden has been announced as a 'Garden of the World Worth Travelling For in 2024' at the International Garden Tourism Awards.
he expertise of the staff at the State Herbarium covers a range of areas in researching and gathering information for the various collections within the Herbarium. These include:
The taxonomic botanists of the Biosystematics Research team have considerable experience in undertaking taxonomic revisions of Australian plant groups. They have taxonomic knowledge predominantly in arid and lower plant groups. They have an often unique in-depth knowledge of the taxonomy, biology, and ecological and geographical distribution of their specialist groups, and thus the capacity to interpret available evidence in other groups.
Their studies have made and are making major advances in knowledge of the species and infraspecific variation of the groups they specialise in, through:
Evolution and origin of weeds.
Cladistic techniques interpreting the relationship of plant species, which can then be related to past climates or adaptive transformations.
21 November 2023
Adelaide Botanic Garden has been announced as a 'Garden of the World Worth Travelling For in 2024' at the International Garden Tourism Awards.
18 July 2023
Have you ever driven past the beautiful heritage-listed Goodman Building when passing the Garden on Hackney Road? Did you know this building was formerly the base for the Municipal Tramways Trust but now serves as the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium administration building.