In October 2022, the South Australian Seed Conservation Centre officially launched the Threatened Plant Seed Orchard.
This new addition to the Adelaide Botanic Garden houses some of the most threatened plant species in the state and showcases the tireless conservation efforts of Seed Centre staff, volunteers and its partner organisations.
The Threatened Plant Seed Orchard has been specifically designed to protect threatened plant species from extinction and preserve seeds of these plants for the future.
Seeds will also be propagated at an on-site nursery before being reintroduced into the wild as part of environmental regeneration projects across the state.
Many of the threatened plant species in the seed orchard are only known from very few plants or a single population in the wild.
In some cases, Adelaide Botanic Garden has a larger collection of specific threatened plants than what you would find in the wild anywhere on earth.
The SA Seed Conservation Centre has worked with a number of schools and farmers to promote the preservation of native plant species and to encourage them to create their own seed orchards which assists with conservation efforts.
