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Australia's state flowers have been featured on series of postage stamps twice—a set of six stamps in July 1968, each showing the flowers of one state, and a series of seven stamps, showing the six state flowers and the golden wattle, in March 2014. The Sturt's Desert Pea and Golden Wattle were also
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as their State floral emblem on 5 December 1962, however it is rarely seen as an official or popular emblem. This led to the
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243:Telopea speciosissima
215:Wahlenbergia gloriosa
159:Binomial nomenclature
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855:Gossypium sturtianum
632:"Tasmanian Blue Gum"
579:"Sturt's Desert Pea"
559:on 14 September 2009
271:Gossypium sturtianum
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378:Pink (Common) Heath
355:Eucalyptus globulus
266:Sturt's Desert Rose
121:The Golden Wattle (
105:Eucalyptus globulus
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322:Sturt's Desert Pea
253:Northern Territory
78:In November 1960,
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748:18 October
439:References
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163:Reference
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