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golden wattle

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golden wattle
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1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) an Australian yellow-flowered leguminous plant, Acacia pycnantha, that yields a useful gum and bark
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any of several similar and related plants, esp Acacia longifolia of Australia
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Noun1.golden wattle - shrubby Australian tree having clusters of fragrant golden yellow flowersgolden wattle - shrubby Australian tree having clusters of fragrant golden yellow flowers; widely cultivated as an ornamental
Acacia pycnantha
genus Acacia - large genus of shrubs and trees and some woody vines of Central and South America, Africa, Australia and Polynesia: wattle; mimosa
wattle - any of various Australasian trees yielding slender poles suitable for wattle
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According to a report in The Sydney Morning Herald, the seedlings of the golden wattle, waratah, flannel flower and wollemi pine accompanied NASA astronaut Dr Gregory Chamitoff on his six-month space odyssey.
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Then there was the Meredith River gleaming and shining along its stony bed, richly fringed by native flowering shrubs, mingled with garden flowers half-wild, poppies, stocks, wallflowers and bright eyed marigolds looking merrily up, amongst thickets of the golden wattle and snowy tea-tree, whilst on the higher ground huge old gum-trees stand majestically.
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The knife acacia (Acacia cultriformis) has fascinating triangle-shaped leaves, and the Sydney golden wattle (Acacia longiflora) produces scads of flowers in pendant, butter-yellow chains.
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