
  
  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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