Date of issue: 8 October 2019
Designer: Sonia Young, Australia Post Design Studio
Printer: RA Printing

This is one of three stamps on the theme of 'Seed Banking'.

Plant: Petrophile latericola

Family: PROTEACEAE

Common-name: Laterite Petrophile

Petrophile latericola is a shrub endemic to Western Australia.
The many-branched shrub typically grows to a height of 0.4 to 1.5 metres.
It blooms in November producing yellow flowers. It is found on winter wet flats
in the South West region of Western Australia near Busselton where it grows in lateritic clay soils