The Plam House at the Botanic Gardens
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Adelaide Botanic Garden
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Daily
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Adelaide Botanic Garden
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The Adelaide Botanic Garden is the proud owner of the magnificent Bicentennial Conservatory, the largest glasshouse in the southern hemisphere, housing a fabulous tropical rainforest exhibit.
The garden specialises in scientific and educational displays of ornamental plants, both exotic and native. Collections range from palms and endangered cycads through to culinary and medicinal herbs. It also contains the Museum of Economic Botany, which houses a large collection of interesting seed pods and fruits ranging from banksias, eucalypts, conifer cones and vanilla pods right through to the rare double coconut from the Seychelles.
Another highlight is the Palm House, an exquisite restored Victorian glasshouse imported from Bremen in Germany in 1875 and thought to be the only one of its kind in the world. Inside is a display of Madagascan arid flora.
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