Adelaide Botanic Garden

Adelaide Botanic Garden
The garden's 1877 tropical palm house
Location in City of Adelaide
Type	Botanical
Location	Adelaide, South Australia
Coordinates	34°55′05″S 138°36′39″E / 34.9181°S 138.6107°E / -34.9181; 138.6107
Area	51-hectare (130-acre)
Opened	1857
Website	www.botanicgardens.sa.gov.au

The Adelaide Botanic Garden is a 51-hectare (130-acre) public garden at the north-east corner of the Adelaide city centre, in the Adelaide Park Lands. It encompasses a fenced garden on North Terrace (between Lot Fourteen, the site of the old Royal Adelaide Hospital, and the National Wine Centre) and behind it the Botanic Park (adjacent to the Adelaide Zoo). Work was begun on the site in 1855, with its official opening to the public on 4 October 1857.

The Adelaide Botanic Garden and adjacent State Herbarium of South Australia, together with the Wittunga Botanic Garden and Mount Lofty Botanic Garden, comprise the Botanic Gardens of South Australia, administered by the Board of the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium, a state government statutory authority.