Corporate Body
Currency Creek Arboretum (1992 - )
- From
- 1992
Currency Creek, South Australia, Australia - Functions
- Arboretum, Conservation or Environment and Plant Science
- Website
- http://www.dn.com.au/Currency_Creek_Arboretum.html
- Location
- 15 Rousillion Promenade, Old Reynella, South Australia
Summary
The Currency Creek Arboretum (CCA) has the largest collection of eucalypt species in the world. The arboretum consists of over 900 species and subspecies (more than 7000 individual plants) in 2012. Major plantings of eucalypts have taken place most years at CCA since 1993.
Related entries
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Smith, Ailie; Moje, Christine; Rigby, Rebecca, The Study of Australian Eucalypts, eScholarship Research Centre, 2013, http://www.eoas.info/eucalypts/index.html. Details
Books
- Wrigley, J.; and Fagg, M., Eucalypts: a Celebration (Crows Nest Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2010), 344 pp. Details
Resources
- Fagg, Murray, 'Currency Creek Arboretum Eucalypt Research Centre', Directory of Australian Botanic Gardens and Arboreta, Australian National Botanic Gardens, 2009, http://www.anbg.gov.au/chabg/bg-dir/031.html. Details
- Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1508858. Details
See also
- Sheppard, H. et al., Eucalypts, Australian Government, 2007, http://australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/eucalypts. Details
Christine Moje
Created: 13 July 2012, Last modified: 25 June 2024
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