I bought one the flower called the waratah while I was there and should have bought two or three of the other designs.    From Wordnik.com.  [DesignerBlog] Reference

The waratah is of a brilliant red colour, growing single and stately on a high stalk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peeps At Many Lands: Australia] Reference

An introduction to an Australian home -- Off to a picnic -- The wattle, the gum, the waratah -- The joys of the forest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peeps At Many Lands: Australia] Reference

IT has been the state's floral emblem since 1962 but, with the stroke of an artist's pen, Nathan Rees has replaced the waratah with the national flower of India.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily Telegraph | Top Stories] Reference

That is exciting enough to take attention away even from the oysters, for the waratah, the handsomest wildflower of the world, is becoming rare around the cities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peeps At Many Lands: Australia] Reference

Carried thus over the shoulder of an eager, flushed child, the waratah suggests another idea: it represents exactly the thyrsus of the Bacchanals of ancient legends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peeps At Many Lands: Australia] Reference

The waratah is not at all a dainty, fragile flower, but a solid mass of bloom like the vegetable cauliflower; indeed, if you imagine a cauliflower of a vivid red colour, about the size of a pear and the shape of a heart, growing on a stalk six feet high, you will have some idea of the waratah.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peeps At Many Lands: Australia] Reference

Here's a link to a photo of a waratah http://www.flickr.com/photos/koalabear007/2873228463 , a "gift" for Jules from Andrea in Sydney, Australia.    From Wordnik.com.  [baba cool - French Word-A-Day] Reference

Here's a link to a photo of a waratah (http://www. flickr.com/photos/koalabear007/2873228463), a "gift" for Jules from Andrea in Sydney, Australia.    From Wordnik.com.  [baba cool - French Word-A-Day] Reference

On the other there were new names, borrowings from Aboriginal languages, like boobook, dingo, koala, kurrajong, wallaby, wallaroo, waratah, and wombat, all from Dharuk (the Sydney language); descriptive names like blackbutt, bottlebrush, duckbill, flooded gum, and gumtree; or popular adoptions of scientific names like banksia, callistemon, casuarina, boronia, eucalyptus, and platypus.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 3] Reference

I don't have a single favourite flower, either, though I am particularly partial to rose, daphne, gardenia, frangipani, apple blossom, orange blossom, cherry blossom, hellebore to look at, not to eat, forget-me-not, violet, lilac, wisteria, royal bluebell, waratah, boronia, azalea, camellia, carnation, daffodil, jonquil, cornflower, freesia, miniature iris, lavender, magnolia, peony and a bunch more I can't quite recall.    From Wordnik.com.  [gillpolack: Twenty-five things] Reference

The koala (for a long time called native bear), the dingo, the wallaroo (a large brownish-black kangaroo), the wallaby (a small kangaroo), waratah (a red-flowering tree or shrub, the floral emblem of New South Wales), boomerang, waddy (a club or stick, possibly a Pidgin word from English wood), cooee (a call to attract attention from a distance), and corroboree (Aboriginal singing and dancing), appear to have this origin.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 4] Reference