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stamp: Mirbelia spinosa

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.

 

 


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