The wattle trees are blooming at the moment and this is definite evidence that Winter is slowly giving way to Spring, Downunder.
The genus Acacia constitutes, in its traditional circumspection, the second largest genus in Fabaceae (Astragalus being the largest), with roughly 1,300 species, about 960 of them native to Australia, with the remainder spread around the tropical to warm-temperate regions of both hemispheres, including Europe, Africa, southern Asia, and the Americas.
This post is part of the Floral Friday Fotos meme.
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