Golden wattle or long-leaved acacia, Acacia longifolia, native to southeastern Australia, and prickly moses or pretty zigzag-spined acacia, Acacia pulchella, native to western Australia. Handcoloured engraving from Joseph Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, Volume 4, Orr and Smith, London, 1837.

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