Today is not only the first day of spring but also National Wattle Day. It is 21 years since the golden wattle was declared Australia's official national flower. A new exhibition celebrating the ...

A golden wattle plant in bloom in Australia's Western Desert Horst Mahr / Getty Images Each spring across Australia, its native golden wattle plants (Acacia pycnantha Benth.) burst into bloom in a ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The fast-growing, bird-attracting, nitrogen-fixing ways of the Acacia, the biggest plant genus in Australia, comes into the spotlight ...

It's been a long and hard battle for the wattle to be recognised as the nation's floral emblem. On wattle day, Terry Fewtrell looks how the wattle symbolises our land, people and nation. 98 years ago ...

When it is winter here in the Midwest, it is, of course, summer in the southern hemisphere. On January 26 each year, (which is Australia Day), I think a lot about Australia where I was born. The ...

However, after Jane Franklin arrived in 1837 as the wife of the governor, she fell in love with the wattle flower and, in her energetic way, did something about it. She or her husband came up with the ...

Last week, Australia’s new logo was revealed: a golden wattle flower that many were quick to point out bears an uncanny resemblance to COVID-19. As Ash Ivory argues, it wasn’t just a design failure, ...