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Plants

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Acacia sensu lato ''Acacia sensu lato, s.l.'' (pronounced or ), known commonly as mimosa, acacia, thorntree or wattle, is a Polyphyly, polyphyletic genus of shrubs and trees belonging to the subfamily Mimosoideae of the family Fabaceae. It was described by the S ...
'', polyphyletic genus of plants commonly known as wattle, especially in Australian English **''
Acacia ''Acacia'', commonly known as wattles or acacias, is a genus of about of shrubs and trees in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the pea family Fabaceae. Initially, it comprised a group of plant species native to Africa, South America, and Austral ...
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Black wattle Black wattle is the common name for a number of species of trees that are native to Australia, as listed below: *''Acacia aulacocarpa'' *''Acacia auriculiformis'', also known as Darwin Black Wattle or northern black wattle; *''Acacia concurrens ...
, common name for several species of acacia ***Golden wattle, ''
Acacia pycnantha ''Acacia pycnantha'', most commonly known as the golden wattle, is a tree of the family Fabaceae. It grows to a height of and has phyllodes (flattened leaf stalks) instead of true leaves. The profuse fragrant, golden flowers appear in late ...
'', species of acacia which is the official floral emblem of Australia ***Sunshine wattle, ''
Acacia terminalis ''Acacia terminalis'' (sunshine wattle) is a shrub or small tree to 6 m in height. It is an Australian native whose range extends through New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania. Common names are cedar wattle (also used of '' Acacia elata''), e ...
'', species of acacia which grows in southeastern Australia ***Corkwood wattle, ''
Acacia oshanesii ''Acacia oshanesii'', commonly known as corkwood wattle and irish wattle, is a species of ''Acacia'' native to eastern Australia. Description The shrub or tree has an erect habit and typically grows to a height of and has grey, green or brown ...
'' ***Corkybark wattle, ''
Acacia sericophylla ''Acacia sericophylla'' is a shrub or tree commonly known as the desert dogwood, desert oak or cork-bark wattle. To the Indigenous Australian people of the Pilbara, the Nyangumarta peoples, it is known as Pirrkala. The species is of the genus ' ...
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Vachellia ''Vachellia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae, commonly known as thorn trees or acacias. It belongs to the subfamily Mimosoideae. Its species were considered members of genus '' Acacia'' until 2009. ''Vachellia'' ...
'' *** Corkwood wattle, ''Vachellia bidwillii'' or ''Vachellia sutherlandii'' ***Corkybark wattle, '' Vachellia suberosa'' **''
Senegalia ''Senegalia'' (from Senegal and '' Acacia senegal'' (L.) Willd.) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the Mimosoid clade. Until 2005, its species were considered members of ''Acacia.'' The genus was considered po ...
'' *** Climbing wattle, ''Senegalia pennata'' *''
Callicoma ''Callicoma'' is a plant genus that contains just one species, ''Callicoma serratifolia'', a tall shrub or small tree native to Australia. ''Callicoma serratifolia'' is commonly known as black wattle. One explanation for the name is the similarit ...
'', also known as black wattle, although unrelated to the acacia species


Other uses

* Steam Tug ''Wattle'', vessel formerly in commercial service in Victoria Harbour, Melbourne, Australia *
Wallace Wattles Wallace Delois Wattles (; 1860 – 7 February 1911) was an American New Thought writer. He remains personally somewhat obscure, but his writing has been widely quoted and remains in print in the New Thought and self-help movements. Wattles' be ...
(1860–1911), American New Thought writer, author *
Wattle (anatomy) A wattle is a fleshy Caruncle (bird anatomy), caruncle hanging from various parts of the head or neck in several groups of birds and mammals. Caruncles in birds include those found on the face, wattles, dewlaps, Snood (anatomy), snoods, and earlob ...
, fleshy growth hanging from the head or neck of certain animals. *
Wattle (construction) Wattle is a lattice made by weaving flexible branches around upright stakes. The wattle may be made into an individual panel, commonly called a hurdle, or it may be formed into a continuous fence. Wattles also form the basic structure for wattl ...
, woven strips of wood forming panels used for fencing or for walling **
Wattle and daub Wattle and daub is a composite material, composite building method in which a woven lattice of wooden strips called "wattle (construction), wattle" is "daubed" with a sticky material usually made of some combination of wet soil, clay, sand, and ...
, a building technique using woven wooden supports packed with clay or mud *
Wattle (dermatology) Wattle or wattles may refer to: Plants *''Acacia sensu lato'', polyphyletic genus of plants commonly known as wattle, especially in Australian English **''Acacia'' ***Black wattle, common name for several species of acacia ***Golden wattle, ''A ...
, another term for congenital cartilaginous rest of the neck *Wattle, official name assigned to the star
WASP-19 WASP-19, formally named Wattle, is a magnitude 12.3 star about away, located in the Vela constellation of the southern hemisphere. This star has been found to host a transiting hot Jupiter-type planet in a tight orbit. WASP-19 is older ...


See also

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Croatian wattle The Croatian interlace or Croatian wattle, known as the or in Croatian, is a type of interlace, most characteristic for its three-ribbon pattern. It is one of the most often used patterns of Croatian pre-Romanesque art and architecture. Ove ...
, decorative pattern found in medieval Croatian art *
Waddle (disambiguation) Waddle may refer to: * Waddle, Pennsylvania Waddle is a populated place in Patton Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of the Buffalo Run Valley, Happy Valley, and the larger Nittany Valley. Geography Waddle is ...
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Wattle bagworm The wattle bagworm (''Kotochalia junodi'', formerly ''Acanthopsyche junodi'') is a species of moth in the family Psychidae. In southern Africa it is a pest of the black wattle (''Acacia mearnsii'') which is grown largely as a source of vegetabl ...
, caterpillar native to Southern Africa *
Wattle Day Wattle Day is a day of celebration in Australia on the first day of September each year, which is the start of the Australian spring. This is the time when many ''Acacia'' species (commonly called wattles in Australia), are in flower. So, people w ...
, Australian celebration of the first day of spring *
Wattlebird ''Anthochaera'' is a genus of birds in the honeyeater family. The species are endemic to Australia and include the little wattlebird, the red wattlebird, the western wattlebird, and the yellow wattlebird. A molecular phylogenetic study has sho ...
, member of the honeyeater family, native to Australia *
Wattle-eye Platysteiridae is a family of small, stout passerine birds of the African tropics. The family contains the wattle-eyes, batises and shrike-flycatchers. They were previously classed as a subfamily of the Old World flycatchers, Muscicapidae. These ...
, family of small insect-eating birds native to Africa {{disambig