Florilegium: Sydney’s painted garden
The artists have gifted the botanical paintings to the Gardens in honour of the bicentenary of the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney.
This exhibition celebrates the renaissance in the long tradition of botanic art and demonstrates the botanical and horticultural development of the Royal Botanic Garden and its links with domestic gardens and the public landscapes of NSW over 200 years from 1816 to 2016.
Sarracenia leucophylla + S. alata
White pitcher plant + West coast pitcher plant
Prunus persica 'Versicolor'
Flowering peach
Hibiscus insularis
Phillip Island hibiscus
Eucalyptus tereticornis
Forest red gum
Erythrina crista-galli 'Hendersonii'
Cock's comb coral tree
Dichorisandra thyrsiflora
Blue ginger
Crataegus persimilis 'Prunifolia'
Broad-leaved cockspur thorn
Angiopterus evecta
Giant fern
Stenocarpus sinuatus
Firewheel tree
Lapageria rosea
Chilean bellflower or copihue
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