Rodd, Anthony Norman (Tony)   (1940 -  )

Born on 27 August 1940 at Lane Cove, Sydney, NSW;

Tony started as a forestry student then worked in a wood structure laboratory, then switched to botany and was the first Horticultural Botanist at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney.

There, among other tasks he catalogued the garden's collections, identified plants for the public, and collected plants in the wild.

He has co-authored books on palms and rainforest gardens as well as contributing material to various other publications, including the Australian Encyclopedia and The Ultimate Book of Trees & Shrubs.

His special interest is the classification and nomenclature of ornamental plants, but he has long experience in their garden uses as well.

He is also a photographer, managing his own library of botanical transparencies of which more than 2,000 have been published in books.

Among his other activities are environmental consulting and the compilation of a database of early plant introductions to Australia.

Tony's leisure time is occupied by literature, bushwalking and fishing for trout in mountain streams.

Source: Extracted from:
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW), Tue 27 Aug 1940, Page 8, Family Notices
Botanica, Random House, 1997, contributer profile.
Trees: The Macmillan Visual Guide, Tony Rodd & Jennifer Stackhous, Macmillan, 2007, author profile.
Portrait Photo: 1978, George Chippendale, ANBG Photo Collection H-366.

Collecting localities for 'Rodd, A.N.' from AVH (2025)

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