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* The Golden Wattle was proclaimed as the floral emblem of Australia in 1988. * It's characterised by large, golden ball-shaped flowers. * It is both frost and drought tolerant. * Australia's official colours of green and gold were adopted from the green and gold of the Golden Wattle. * The Golden Wattle features on Australia's highest national ward, the Order of Australia. * September 1, the first day of Spring, was declared National Wattle Day in 1992. * The story goes that a wattle was the first plant to flower in Hiroshima after the atomic bomb was detonated in 1945.

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