Official bird and tree of Australia

["Lawrie Conole" <>]

Anthea Fleming:

 

> that. The wattle is justabout big enough to be a tree.

"The wattle" actually amounts to squillions of species (approximately)!  The venerable Blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon) of SE wet forests is, for example, most definitely a tree  ;-)

 

Even if not strictly official, I think the "green and gold" signifying Australia in various contexts is a reference to the wattle(s).  Go with Acacia and you can hardly go too far wrong .......

 

L.

 

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