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unusual facts about Brisbane City Botanic Gardens



Buddleja dysophylla

dysophylla is only known to be in cultivation in Australia, at Longueville, and at the Brisbane City Botanic Gardens, where it flowers in August.

Queensland Herbarium

The history of the Herbarium as an institution starts in 1855 with the appointment of Walter Hill as Superintendent of Brisbane’s Botanic Gardens, four years before Queensland separated from New South Wales as a colony.


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