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Learn indigenous plant use at the Botanic Gardens

VISITORS to the Australian National Botanic Gardens’ can now discover the significance of some of Australia’s iconic native plants on a new Aboriginal Plant Use Trail.

Ngunnawal Elder Agnes Shea launched the Trail this morning by unveiling an interpretation sign in the Monocot section of the Gardens.

Garden’s General Manger Peter Byron said the trail features 27 plants important to Indigenous people, ranging from the coastal native raspberry (Rubus moluccanus) to the quandong (Santalum acuminatum) found in the drier Australian interior.

“The Australian National Botanic Gardens grows plants from many regions across Australia which means we can feature plants ranging from rainforest communities to the dry Red Centre in the Aboriginal Plant Use Trail,” Peter said.

“The Aboriginal Plant Use trail winds through the Rainforest Gully, Conifer Garden, Rock Garden and Monocot Garden with interpretive signs telling how Aboriginal people used each of the featured plants.”

The Aboriginal Plant Use Trail is funded by the Friends of the Gardens Public Fund.

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