Mount Tomah

Postcode: 2758

Mount Tomah is a locality in the state of New South Wales, Australia in the City of Blue Mountains. The area is famous for the Mount Tomah Botanic Garden.

Situated at an altitude of over 1000 metres in the northern Blue Mountains of New South Wales, the Mount Tomah Botanic Garden was established as the cool-climate garden of the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney.

It was opened to the public in 1987 and is already home to over 5000 species of plants from the cooler parts of the world. Many of these have been collected by staff of the Royal Botanic Gardens in the wild and have not previously been grown in Australia. Areas visited include South America, Southeast Asia, China, Africa, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and the alpine regions of Australia, special emphasis being placed on plants of the southern hemisphere.

The Mount Tomah garden is one of the few botanic gardens where plants have been grouped according to their geographical origin. This allows the visitor to see both the similarities and differences between the plants of each region, and thus to learn something of the evolution of the floras of the different continents.

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