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Acacia baileyana or Cootamundra wattle is a shrub or tree in the flowering plant family Fabaceae. The scientific name of the species honours the botanist Frederick Manson Bailey . It is indigenous to a very small area in southern inland New South Wales, comprising Temora, Cootamundra, Stockinbingal and Bethungra districts.
In The Two Ronnies' sketch "The Australians", Cootamundra is the location of their travel agency. [49] Leonard Hubbard recorded the song "Cootamundra" in 1924. [50] The Cootamundra Jazz Band (1951–1960) was one of Australia's foremost Dixieland groups; John Williamson recorded the song "Cootamundra Wattle" in 1986. [51]
In 1916, NSW changed its date for Wattle Day to 1 August, so that the indigenous, early-flowering Cootamundra wattle (Acacia baileyana) could be used. [1] The Cootamundra wattle was planted all over Sydney and when the Red Cross called for sprigs of wattle to sell in Martin Place for the war effort, this species had mostly finished flowering ...
Acacia baileyana (Cootamundra wattle) Lomandra hystrix (river reed) Soliva sessilis (bindii) Arctotheca calendula (capeweed) Stellaria media (chickweed) Pinus radiata (radiata pine) Passiflora suberosa (corky passion vine) Tropaeolum majus (garden nasturtium) Acacia saligna (golden wreath wattle) Andropogon virginicus (whisky grass)
Acacia cultriformis, known as the knife-leaf wattle, dogtooth wattle, half-moon wattle or golden-glow wattle, is a perennial tree or shrub of the genus Acacia native to Australia. It is widely cultivated, and has been found to have naturalised in Asia , Africa , North America , New Zealand and South America . [ 1 ]
Acacia retinodes is an evergreen shrub that is native to South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania. Short racemes of yellow flowers are produced periodically throughout the year. [3] [4] Some common names are retinodes water wattle, swamp wattle, wirilda, ever-blooming wattle and silver wattle.
Popular tracks include the title song, "Galleries of Pink Galahs" (see Galah), "Raining on the Rock" (see Uluru) and "Cootamundra Wattle" (see Acacia baileyana). The album had a re-recorded version of "True Blue" which was released as a single in September.
Like all wattles, the downy wattle has leaf-like structures known as phyllodes which are compound (pinnate) and measure 1.5–6.5 cm (0.59–2.56 in) in length with 3 to 12 pairs of smaller "leaves" or pinnae, each 0.5–2.5 cm (0.20–0.98 in) long, and themselves composite - composed of 5 to 20 pairs of pinnules.