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Dunedin Botanic Garden

Main Address:
Dunedin Botanic Garden
Dunedin City Council
P O Box 5045
Dunedin
9058 New Zealand
Telephone: 64 (0)3 477 4000
Fax: 64-(0)3 473 9240
URL: www.cityofdunedin.com/city/?page=bg_about
Primary Email: botanic@cityofdunedin.com

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• Staff Details
  • Director's Name: Alan Matchett
    Curator's Name:
    Plant Records Officer's Name: Tom Myers
    
  • Total Staff:
    Horticultural Staff Number: 21
    Educational Staff Number: 1
    Research Staff Number:
    Administration Staff Number: 6
• About the Garden
  • Institution Type: Botanic Garden
  • Status
  • Status: Private: N
    Status: State: N
    Status: Educational: Y
    Status: Municipal: Y
    Status: Satellite: N
    Status: Trust: N
    
  • Date founded: 1863
  • Physical Data
  • Natural Vegetation Area: Y
    Natural vegetation area: Size: 10 Hectares
    
  • Landscaped Area: Y
    Landscaped Area: Size: 18 Hectares
    
  • Total Area: 28 Hectares
    Latitude: -45.857458
    Longitude: 170.521135
    Annual Rainfall: 926 mm
    Altitude: 200.00 Metres
    
  • Locality: Information
  • Locality: Garden Name:
  • Local Address: Corner of Great King Street and Opoho Road
  • Locality: City: Dunedin
  • Locality: State:
• Features and Facilities
  • Herbarium: Y
    Herbarium: Number of Specimens: 1000
    Arboretum: Y
    Arboretum Size: 8
    
  • Micropropagation/ Tissue Culture Facilities: N
    Seed Bank: N
    Published Plant Catalogue: N
    Computer Plant Record System: Y
    
  • Open to public: Y
    Friends society: Y
    Retail Outlet: Shop: N
    Retail Outlet: Plant Sales: Y
    Disabled access: Y
    
  • Number of Visitors: 250000
    Number of Volunteers: 46
    
• Plant Collections
  • Accession Number: 18000
    
  • Special Collections:Native flora and cultivars (>1350), Rhododendron (>500 spp.), trees and shrub collection, Brachyglottis spp. and cvs, alpines, hebes, pittosporums, conifers, herbaceous geographical collections: Australia (530 spp. of which 110 native to Tasmania and 35 cvs GreviStudbook for kea, the native bird
• Conservation Programmes
  • Conservation Programme: N
    Medicinal Plant Programme: N
    Ex Situ Conservation Programme: N
    Reintroduction Programme: N
    
• Research Programmes
  • We currently have no data on Research Programmes at this garden.
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• Education Programmes
  • Visitor/Education Centre: Y
    Education Signs in Garden: Y
    Public Lectures/Talks: Y
    Education Booklets/Leaflets: Y
    Guided Tours: Y
    Permanent Public Displays: Y
    Courses for General Public: Y
    Education Programme: Y