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Acacia pycnantha stamp
Date of issue: 9 Sept 1959
Same image on white paper was issued on 28/10/64.
Designer: Margaret Stones

Plant: Acacia pycnantha

Family: FABACEAE

Golden Wattle

Medium shrub or small tree to 10m.
Golden ball-shaped flowers in spring.
Occurs in NSW, Vic, Sth Aust. (naturalised in WA).
National floral emblem of Australia.


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