The Bendora Arboretum was established in 1940 by Dr Charles Lane Poole, Director of the then Forestry and Timber Bureau as one of a series of experimental plantings in the Australian Capital Territory, to help determine which commercial species of trees should be grown in the Canberra district. It is located within Namadgi National Park.
It consists of fifty-two species of trees laid out in 9 x 9 blocks (81 trees per block). It survived the Canberra bushfires of 2003. It is listed on the Heritage Places Register of the ACT. The name of the Arboretum was made up by Lane Poole in 1940. It is not an Aboriginal name as some believe.
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