Date of issue: 14 December 2015
Designer: Simone Sakinofsky, Australia Post Design Studio
Photographer: Kevin Thiele
Printer: McKellar (Pemara)
Part of a series of four WA 'Wildflowers' stamps, introduced at short notice for postal price rise to $1.
Plant: Mirbelia spinosa
Family: FABACEAE
Spiny Mirbelia
Erect much-branched shrub, 15 - 100 cm high, flowers yellow-red.
Flowers Aug - Oct.
Grows on wide range of soils and granite outcrops.
Distribution: WA.