ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS VICTORIA Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria is a centre of excellence for botanical research. We play a vital role in the study of Australia’s plant and fungal flora, enriching our understanding of native biodiversity and its urgent conservation needs. THE BOARD | ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS VICTORIA She is currently Senior Director, Development, Monash University, supporting a $500 million fundraising campaign. She joined the board of the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria in 2016. She has a Graduate Diploma of Business, Marketing, and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Certified Change Management

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SONICA BOTANICA

Sonica Botanica is a series of four audio experiences created by Patrick Cronin. Each episode responds to people, place and plants connected with specific collections or landscapes at Melbourne Gardens. Best experienced through your headphones whilst visiting the featured location. Episode 2: Oak Lawn. This episode responds to Oak

Lawn and its

CRANBOURNE | ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS VICTORIA Cranbourne Gardens. Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne offers a natural bushland experience alongside the Australian Garden, an award-winning, contemporary botanic garden featuring the plants and ecosystems of south-east Australia. The bushland includes over 10km of walking tracks, six kilometres of cycling tracks, a lookout tower, picturesque

FLORA OF VICTORIA

Flora of Victoria. VicFlora is a comprehensive and current guide to the wild plants of Victoria. With plant profiles, identification tools and richly illustrated, the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria provides this resource free-of-charge for land managers, scientists, students

and

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Shrub or small tree to 16 m high. Leaves elliptic to ovate, 1.5–12 cm long, obtuse, cuneate to rounded at base, softly tomentose beneath. Inflorescence of 1–3 flowers, axillary and terminal to branchlets; peduncle to 5 mm long (terminal bracts minute and deciduous); pedicel 3–5 mm long. Calyx cup-shaped, 4–7 mm long, undulate on margin

FLORA OF VICTORIA

The nectary is very conspicuous, often almost perpendicular to the pedicel, and protruding into the perianth pouch. Grevillea alpina varies greatly in habit, foliar features, inflorescence posture and flower number, and floral characters including colour. Many local forms have informal names in ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS VICTORIA Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria is a centre of excellence for botanical research. We play a vital role in the study of Australia’s plant and fungal flora, enriching our understanding of native biodiversity and its urgent conservation needs. THE BOARD | ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS VICTORIA She is currently Senior Director, Development, Monash University, supporting a $500 million fundraising campaign. She joined the board of the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria in 2016. She has a Graduate Diploma of Business, Marketing, and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Certified Change Management

Practitioner

SEASONS IN BLAK BOX

SEASONS in Blak Box by Utp. Thursday 6th May - Saturday 5th June 2021. All sessions from 6pm on Thursday 27 May to 8.30pm on Thursday 3 June have been cancelled. For further information, please click here. SEASONS in Blak Box is a multi-part sound work that explores the integral role of plants in the Kulin seasonal calendar.

SONICA BOTANICA

Sonica Botanica is a series of four audio experiences created by Patrick Cronin. Each episode responds to people, place and plants connected with specific collections or landscapes at Melbourne Gardens. Best experienced through your headphones whilst visiting the featured location. Episode 2: Oak Lawn. This episode responds to Oak

Lawn and its

CRANBOURNE | ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS VICTORIA Cranbourne Gardens. Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne offers a natural bushland experience alongside the Australian Garden, an award-winning, contemporary botanic garden featuring the plants and ecosystems of south-east Australia. The bushland includes over 10km of walking tracks, six kilometres of cycling tracks, a lookout tower, picturesque

FLORA OF VICTORIA

Flora of Victoria. VicFlora is a comprehensive and current guide to the wild plants of Victoria. With plant profiles, identification tools and richly illustrated, the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria provides this resource free-of-charge for land managers, scientists, students

and

RBG CENSUS

Identification verification status. (1) Not verified (2) Verified by botanist, some uncertainty (3) Verified by botanist. FRESHWATER ALGAE OF AUSTRALIA Freshwater algae of Australia. Intro. © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens

Victoria

FLORA OF VICTORIA

Shrub or small tree to 16 m high. Leaves elliptic to ovate, 1.5–12 cm long, obtuse, cuneate to rounded at base, softly tomentose beneath. Inflorescence of 1–3 flowers, axillary and terminal to branchlets; peduncle to 5 mm long (terminal bracts minute and deciduous); pedicel 3–5 mm long. Calyx cup-shaped, 4–7 mm long, undulate on margin

FLORA OF VICTORIA

The nectary is very conspicuous, often almost perpendicular to the pedicel, and protruding into the perianth pouch. Grevillea alpina varies greatly in habit, foliar features, inflorescence posture and flower number, and floral characters including colour. Many local forms have informal names in MELBOURNE | ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS VICTORIA Melbourne Gardens. Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Melbourne Gardens has been a treasured part of Melbourne’s cultural life for more than 170 years – much loved by generations of Victorians, as well as by many visitors from interstate and overseas. It is a picturesque haven for recreation and an important resource for education

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Directions to Cranbourne Gardens. Cnr Ballarto Road and Botanic Drive, Cranbourne, (off South Gippsland Highway). Melway Ref: 133 K10. GPS - 1161 Ballarto Road, Cranbourne (Junction Village) Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria at Cranbourne Gardens is approximately a 50 minute

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EXCURSION PLANNING INFORMATION Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria is a centre of excellence for botanical research. We play a vital role in the study of Australia’s plant and fungal flora, enriching our understanding of native biodiversity and its urgent conservation needs.

FLORA OF VICTORIA

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ABORIGINAL HERITAGE WALK APR-MAY Womin Djeka! Journey into Melbourne Gardens, a significant cultural site for the local Kulin Nation, with an Aboriginal guide. Gain insight into the rich history and thriving culture of the First Peoples of Australia though a journey of identifying significant native plants within the Gardens. Learn about Aboriginal plant uses, customs and ongoing connection to country. FRESHWATER ALGAE OF AUSTRALIA Freshwater algae of Australia. Intro. © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens

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HortFlora is a current guide to the cultivated plants of south-eastern Australia. With plant profiles, identification tools and richly illustrated, the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria provides this resource free-of-charge for farmers, foresters, arborists, botanists, garden and landscape designers, students, amateur gardeners, authors, journalists, and indeed anyone with an interest in

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Victoria's flora and fungi are under increasing threat from climate change, environmental weeds, agriculture, forest clearance and urbanisation. Climate change will especially impact on plants restricted to the coldest environments on mountain summits, which are likely to lose their only suitable habitat. At Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, studies of taxonomy, distribution, population genetics, propagation, translocation and seed banking all contribute to the conservation of Victoria’s and Australia's plants and fungi.

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------------------------- PROTECTING OUR RARE AND THREATENED SPECIES In Victoria, there are nearly 700 native species of threatened plants (among the approximately 3,200 species recorded from the state) along with many others that are rare. Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria plays a leading role in programs to conserve these endangered species in order to stabilise or increase populations in their natural habitat. Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria is particularly involved in the conservation of native terrestrial orchids. Victoria is a 'hotspot' for orchid diversity, with 23 per cent of Australia's orchid species occurring in just 3 per cent of the land area. Most of the native orchid species found in Victoria are terrestrial, and at least a third occur nowhere

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Botanic gardens throughout the world play a significant role in helping scientists and the public understand the evolution and history of plants, their present day uses as well as what the future may hold for plants in natural environments. Across our two locations at Melbourne and Cranbourne, our experienced horticulture teams manage 45 plant collections as well as a significant area of precious bushland at Cranbourne Gardens. All of our collections feature plant labels which show each plant's scientific name comprised of a genus and

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How we garden in botanic gardens, how you garden at home and how we all garden as a community has big impacts on the biodiversity and sustainability of urban Australia. The Australian Garden at Cranbourne is designed to showcase how native plants can make a spectacular and waterwise home garden. There is an Australian plant suitable for virtually any situation in your garden, from tall trees to ground covers, aquatic plants to those growing in low light or in full sun. Australian plants attract native birds and butterflies, and brighten up your garden with wonderful seasonal colour. Visit the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria to find inspiration and great tips for using Australian native plants at home.

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