wattle-tree

Too engrossed with my thoughts to feel the cold of the dull winter day, I remained in my position against the wattle-tree until Gertie came to inform me that tea was ready.

My Brilliant Career Miles Franklin 1916

Abstract forms scarcely existed, and while every gum-tree or wattle-tree had its name, there was no word for 'tree' in general, nor for qualities such as hard, soft, hot, cold, etc.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Robert Vane Russell 1894

This peculiar little creature builds a cunning play-house, a tiny shady bower which it ornaments with vines and highly colored feathers of other birds, besides the yellow blossoms of the wattle-tree and many light-green ferns.

Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands Maturin Murray Ballou 1857

When there is a grub in a wattle-tree its diseased state, which produces excrescences, soon betrays this circumstance to the watchful eyes of a native, and an animal much larger than those found in the grass-tree is soon extracted; they seldom however find more than one or two of these in the same tree.

Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 George Grey 1855

None pursued; safe -- safe; and deliciously he slept that night beneath a spreading wattle-tree, after the first sweet meal of freedom.

The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849