NURSERY

BLACK MOUNTAIN NATURE PARK

FLOWER TO TOWER 5.4 km return from Visitor Centre medium difficulty NO PUBLIC ACCESS Black Mountain Gate Open 9.30 am – 4.30 pm daily

Herbarium Gate Open 9.30 am – 4.30 pm weekdays ACACIA

PROTEACEAE Tropical Glasshouse

MYRTACEAE

SYDNEY REGION FLORA

CULTIVARS

LAMIACEAE Eucalypt Lawn Red Centre Garden PROTEACEAE

WESTERN MALLEE Ducrou EUCALYPTS & ASTERACEAE Pavilion ABORIGINAL PLANT USE TRAIL Eucalypt 0 50m CASUARINA Burbidge Lawn Rock

ACACIA Amphitheatre Garden MYRTACEAE Lawn Asteraceae 1.1 Citrus australisica – Finger lime LEGEND Aboriginal cultures of Australia 10 Garden Paperbark trace back to the oldest living 2.2 Banksia species – Banksia Lawn MAIN PATH cultural history in the world. 3.3 Santalum acuminatum – Quandong Aboriginal people’s knowledge of RUTACEAE 4.4 Livistona australis – Cabbage Tree Palm Waterfall 4 FLOWER TO TOWERplant use,WALK such as an ability to identify ACACIA Rock 5. Xanthorrhoea species – Grass Tree 5 and locate edible and useful plants, 5 Garden 6.6 Dianella species – Flax Lily 6 WHO LIVES HERE?has beenWALK critical to their survival. CALLITRIS 12 11 7

PROTEACEAE 7.7 Lomandra longifolia – Spiny-headed Mat Rush 13 9 8 BRIDGE The trail at the Gardens is one way that this 14 8.8 Brachychiton rupestris – Bottle Tree 15 16 knowledge can be shared and appreciated. STEPS 9.9 Casuarina and Allocasuarina species – She-oak 17 The Aboriginal Plant Use Trail highlights a Brittle 11.10 Acacia aneura – Mulga selection of plants and some of the ways 18 Gum Lawn PUBLIC TOILETS CULTIVARS Banks Building that these were used by Aboriginal people in 16.11 Doryanthes excelsa – Gymea Lily 22 Education Centre different parts of Australia. Similar plants may 19 ACCESSIBLE TOILET 12.12 Podocarpus elatus – Plum Pine 20 21 have been used for the same purposes in 3 Crosbie 13.13 Eustrephus latifolius – Wombat Berry RAINFOREST other areas, depending on local availability. Morrison PARENTS ROOM 14.14 Callitris species – Native Cypress Pine 2 Building Look at the different plants along the 23 24 15.15 Macrozamia spp. – Burrawang 1 DRINKING WATERtrail and see if you can tell which parts 25 were eaten or used medicinally, or which 17.16 Dodonaea viscosa – Sticky Hop Bush 26 Cafe JINDII ECO SPA could have been used for fibre. 18.17 Persoonia pinifolia – Geebung Education Many of the food-producing plants 19.18 Backhousia citriodora – Lemon Myrtle Lawn CAFE 27 bear their fruits for short periods of the 21.19 Rubus moluccanus – Native Raspberry TASMANIAN Jindii Eco Spa year only. Thus the part of the plant that RAINFOREST BOOK/GIFT SHOP 22.20 Hibiscus heterophyllus – Native Hibiscus (Franklin is used will not always be present. LEGEND 23.21 Indigofera australis – Austral Indigo Building) INFORMATION CENTRE ABORIGINAL PLANT USE TRAIL Information for the Aboriginal Plant Use trail 24.22 Syzygium australe – Lilly Pilly was obtained from published sources. MAIN PATH FIRST AID 25.23 Araucaria bidwillii – Bunya Pine BRIDGE 26. Acacia melanoxylon – Blackwood 24 BUS BIKE RACK Please do not pick or eat the plants 27.25 Tasmannia insipida – Pepper Tree STEPS

CAR PARK 28.26 Hedycarya angustifolia – Austral Mulberry PUBLIC TOILETS PICNIC TABLE Visitor TASMANIAN GARDEN 29.27 Dicksonia antarctica – Soft Tree Fern ACCESSIBLE TOILET Centre SHELTER CAFE WATER DRAGON VIEWING GRASSY (mostly Spring and Summer) BOOK/GIFT SHOP WOODLAND GARDEN PHONE Theatrette MAIN INFORMATION CENTRE ENTRY FIRST AID

BIKE RACK CAR PARK

PICNIC TABLE AUSTRALIAN SHELTER NATIONAL WATER DRAGON UNIVERSITY (Spring and Summer only) CLUNIES ROSS STREET E RIV N D TAI UN K MO BLAC