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Tasmanian East Coast Collection

The East coast of Tasmania is known for its beautiful beaches and coastal scenery but many people don't realise that it has high mountains in the North East, spectacular gorges and waterfalls and a wide range of plant habitats.

This has resulted in a large number of plants that are endemic to the East coast.

Plants for the Tasmanian East Coast Collection were sourced from along the entire length of the coast, from Flinders Island to the Tasman Peninsula during field trips by Gardens staff. Collecting began in 2000 with the first planting in 2001. To date, the Collection contains 214 plants.

Its focus is on plants that are unique to the East Coast, with plants from a wide variety of vegetation habitats, including dry sclerophyll, dry grasslands, coastal, wet gully vegetation, wet sclerophyll, riparian and some sub alpine flora.

The Collection includes many rare and threatened species such as Pultenaea prostrata (which is classified as vulnerable), an attractive member of the pea family found in the Fingal Valley. This is just one of the many rare and threatened plants found in the East Coast Collection.