The first day of September has been National Wattle Day since 1992, but Australians has been celebrating the wattle somewhere around the country since as early as 1838 and 1899 and it became our national floral emblem in 1988.
There are at least 900 wattle species found on this continent and there is always a little wattle flowering somewhere.
World-wide it is probably the floral emblem to which the greatest number of people are allergic or to which they have developed a perfume sensitivity - according to hayfever and asthma suffers I know.
Some reports say about 5% of all Australian are sensitive to wattle pollen.
So happy Wattle Day everyone!
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In the words of Monty Python:
This is the wattle
The emblem of our land
You can stick it in a bottle
You can hold it in your hand.
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