wattle

• They walked on through the forest of black wattle, their boots crunching against a thin carpet of tiny fallen leaves and seed pods. —  F ;SF; - vol 088 issue 04 - April 1995
• The church of Dak Rede was a small wattle-and-plaster affair, perched inconveniently on the crest of a hill, just beyond the reach of the humid clutches of the jungle. —  Remittance Girl: Erotic Fiction Online
• One is for the feet and beak and the other for the comb and wattle (and i-cord for the rooster tail). —  Yarn Miracle
• I think they'll all turn up at the station by and by The unexplored country from the Waterholes to the coast was very pleasant to see in all its diversified beauties: deep water-worn gullies whose sides were clothed with wild fig, wattle, and cabbage palms, opening out into fair forest country, well timbered with huge acacias and a species of white cedar, whose pale blue flowers filled the air with their delicious perfume. —  Tom Gerrard
• The wattle, a tree of Australian growth, has been found to contain from twenty-six to thirty per cent of tannic acid. —  The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, Jan-Mar, 1890

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