 This collection returned to the Flecker Botanic Gardens briefly from 1967 to 1971.It is now incorporated into the CSIRO collection.Since the 1930s, the place has had a special association with the work of the Cairns City Council in developing and promoting the Botanic gardens as a place of recreation and, since the 1960s, as an internationally recognised source of scientific information and education in the wet tropics of Australia.