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Date of issue: 3 January 2023
Designer: Sonia Young, Australia Post Design Studio
Printer: EGO

This is the only Australian native plant in a series of ten 'Special Occasions' stamps.

Plant: Telopea speciosissima

Family: PROTEACEAE

Common-name: New South Wales Waratah

Erect shrub to 3m high by 1.5m across.
Brilliant red flowers in spring.
Occurs in eastern NSW.

State floral emblem of NSW.


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