Western Australia's south is currently shimmering with a golden flowering plant — but biologists say it's a very attractive pest. The Sydney golden wattle is one of around a thousand species ...

Wattles belong to the plant genus Acacia, which contains about 1350 species worldwide, including 1000 in Australia. Ranging from trees to minuscule shrubs, acacias dominate many of our landscapes. On ...

Originally, Coast wattle occurred along the east coast from western Victoria — up about ... on sandy soils just above the beaches of south-eastern Australia. But it has now spread into nearby ...