YouTube videos
David Taylor Australian National Botanic Gardens ‘Talks Wattle’ (2018)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WskF04aWGUQ
Articles about Australia’s National Wattle Day
(1st September every year)
Australia’s Wattle Day
Rod Panter (updated in 1997)
Wattle Days from Adam Lindsay Gordon to Ginger Mick
Edwin Ride
Wattle Nationalism
Libby Robin
Australia’s national floral emblem
Australian National Botanic Gardens
Articles about Wattle as a symbol of Australia
Wattle, Place and Feeling for Country in an Australian Republic (Nov. 2007)
Mark McKenna
Enjoy Edwin’s insightful articles about wattle as a symbol:
‘Wattle – a changing Symbol for a Changing Nation’ 2007
‘Wattle Days from Adam Lindsay Gordon to Ginger Mick‘ 2007
‘Wattle: a natural choice for a symbol’ 2009
Edwin Ride, watched on by Mark McKenna and Ben Wellings
at the Wattle Day Association forum:
‘Wattle and other symbols of Australian identity – their meaning today.
31 August 2007 National Library of Australia.
Australia’s national floral emblem (Acacia pycnantha)
- Golden Wattle (Acacia pycnantha) Floral Emblem of Australia ©R.Panter
Photo: Rod Panter
Australia’s national colours – green and gold
The Australian Government
The colour references are:
- Green: PANTONE®348C
- Gold: PANTONE®116C
Australian acacias (wattles)
Useful website
The Genus Acacia
http://www.anbg.gov.au/acacia/index.html
Article: Introduction to Acacia
Phillip Kodela, Terry Tame, Barry Conn, Ken Hill, Linn Linn Lee
http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/PlantNet/wattle/intro.html
Atlas of Living Australia – Wattles
Article: The name Acacia retained for Australian species
The Acacia Page
Association of Societies for Growing Australian Plants (ASGAP)
http://anpsa.org.au/acaciaSG/index.html
Flora of Australia https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa;
World Wide Wattle – conservation, utilization and enjoyment of Australian Acacia species (Wattles)
http://www.worldwidewattle.com/
WATTLE Acacias of Australia – via http://www.environment.gov.au/science/abrs/publications/keys/wattle
Victoria
Article: Traditional uses of Australian acacias
Suzette Searle
http://www.worldwidewattle.com/infogallery/utilisation/aboriginal.php