Superscience

The Botanic Gardens Trust is Australia’s oldest scientific institution. Our scientists include botanists, ecologists, marine scientists, horticultural scientists and entomologists. Their research is about plants - classifying plants, relationships between plants and other living things, growing rare plants like the Wollemi Pine, and finding Australian plants that can be grown in gardens.  

Find out what questions primary and secondary school children asked our scientists during our ‘Ask a scientist’ program.

• Plants in general
• Plant pests & diseases
• Horticulture
• Weeds
• Australian native plants
• Plant relationships
• Gondwana
• Antarctica
• Rainforests
• Plant names & classification
• Careers in botany

Find out about our current research programs & projects

Horticultural research

• NSW Seedbank
• Seed Biology
• Rainforest Seeds
• Terrestrial Orchids

Systematics research

• Evolution of the Proteaceae
• Biology of Myrtaceae
• Evolution of Cyperaceae
• DNA studies of Restionaceae
• Evolution of Vallisneria
• Australian 'Bush Potato'
• Trees of Papua New Guinea
• Marine algae
• Australian freshwater algae
• Lepidoziaceae - Southern Liverworts
• She-oaks - tough survivors
• Cycas - ancient survivors
• DNA of ground orchids

Ecology research

• Ecology of Cumberland Plain Woodland
• NSW Vegetation Project
• Evolution and conservation
• Botany of Botany Bay
• Plants, vegetation, landscape, country
• DNA studies of Elaeocarpaceae
• Habitat Fragmentation
• Floristic Lists of NSW

Plant pathology research

• Cotton Wilt
• Fungal leaf spot on eucalypts
• Australian fungi
• Phythophthora in national parks in NSW
• Fusarium wilt
• Soilborne diseases in Vietnam

Kool links

Explore some of Australian other science spots.

CSIRO

Explore Double Helix the kids club of Australia’s peak scientific research organisation. Find an experiment to try or chat to a real scientist.

The Australian Museum

Full of info about Aussie things.