The botanical ark

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The Botanical Ark, in northeast tropical North Queensland, has the world's largest collection of tropical ethnobotanical plants. This property contains over 3,000 species of plants, including over 400 types of tropical fruits, heliconias and gingers. The Carles commenced this collection in the mid-1980s, first as an organic subsistence farm, and in 1990 as a private ethno-botanical garden. They travel the world's tropics to identify and collect plants still used by indigenous rainforest cultures in foods, spices, shelter, medicine, cosmetics, fibres, oils, dyes and their everyday needs