Olive Pink Botanic GardenOPBG Fauna OPBG Flora

The Olive Pink Botanic Garden is an Arid Zone Botanic Garden in the Northern Territory, named after Miss Olive Pink.

Olive Pink was an extraordinary individual, who contributed to the development of the field of anthropology. She arrived in Central Australia in 1930, and lived with the Aboriginal people in the Tanami Desert. She studied the Arrernte and Walpiri people and was a great advocate of Aboriginal rights and campaigned vigorously for the rights of the Aboriginal People.

As an accomplished artist, she later lived in Alice Springs and was the visionary force behind the development of the first arid zone botanic garden in the southern hemisphere.

Today, visitors can find out more information about Olive Pink and the continuing work in developing and caring for the botanic garden.

Ghost gum / Ilwempe (Corymbia aparrerinja), Olive Pink Botanic Garden
Ghost gum / Ilwempe (Corymbia aparrerinja), Olive Pink Botanic Garden

For additional information contact the local tourism visitor centre. If you are looking for somewhere to stay, check out our range of Alice Springs accommodation.

Olive Pink Botanic Garden has hosted a number of events over time, including a number of “art in the park” style of exhibitions. You can see some previously displayed artworks (some are on permanent display such as the Emu by artist Al Bethune).

More information and images coming…


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Olive Pink Botanic GardenOPBG Fauna Birds at Olive Pink Botanic Garden Grey-crowned Babbler Sacred Kingfisher Western Bowerbird Black-footed Rock Wallaby Insects at Olive Pink Botanic Garden Australiphthiria (Bee Fly) Ground Shield Bug (Choerocoris paganus) Laced Day-Moth (Ipanica cornigera) Yellow Hairy Flower Wasp (Radumeris tasmaniensis) Spiders Australian Golden Orb Weaver Spider (Trichonephila edulis) Orange Spider Wasp (Cryptocheilus bicolor) Striped Orb Weaver (Neoscona sp) OPBG Flora Bean Tree Bush Hibiscus Bush Plum Caper Bush / Wild Passionfruit Dead Finish Ghost Gum Heart-leaved Frankenia Krichauff Ranges Fuchsia Mulga Needlewood Pink Fire-bush Potato Bush Prickly Wattle Red-Bud Mallee Shrubby Fox-tail (Ptilotus whitei) Sticky Hopbush (Dodonaea viscosa) Sturt’s Desert Rose Tall Saltbush Wild Tomato Wild Tomato – after the rain Wire-Leaf Mistletoe