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 the hot topics that our scientists are currently working on:

Current hot topics in horticultural research

Titan Arum - a collaborative project with Kebun Raya Bogor in Indonesia, sponsored by the Australia-Indonesia Institute and the Friends of The Gardens
Waratahs
Flannel flowers

Current hot topics in plant systematics research

Current hot topics in ecology research

Current hot topics in plant pathology research

Phythophthora in national parks in NSW - an introduced disease that is a serious threat to many of our native plants
Australian microfungi - perhaps the most numerous and least known of fungi, we are trying to find out about both the good and the bad
Fusarium - ecology, taxonomy and pathology of Fusarium and related fungal species
Fungi - not always fun guys!