Editing Kangaroo paw (section)

== History ==
The genus Anigozanthos' author was French botanist [[Jacques Labillardière|Jacques-Julien Houtou de Labillardière]], who first collected the kangaroo paw in 1792 near Esperance. Red and green kangaroo paw or Kurulbrang ([[Noongar]]<ref name="Mooro">{{cite web|last1=Neville|first1=Collard|title=Plants and People in Mooro Country|url=http://www.joondalup.wa.gov.au/Files/Plants%20and%20People%20in%20Mooro%20Country.pdf|website=Yellagonga Regional Park|publisher=City of Joondalup|access-date=27 August 2016|archive-date=14 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314045819/http://www.joondalup.wa.gov.au/Files/Plants%20and%20People%20in%20Mooro%20Country.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>) was introduced to England in 1833, and was first described in 1836 by botanist [[David Don]]. The specific name ''manglesii'' is so named in honour of the first individual to raise the specimen from seed, [[Mangles family#Prominent members|Robert Mangles]], which he did in his English garden. His experience with growing the specimen is recorded in letters to his brother [[James Mangles (Royal Navy officer)|James Mangles]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.anbg.gov.au/emblems/wa.emblem.html|title=Red and Green Kangaroo Paw|website=Australian National Herbarium|access-date=4 June 2017}}</ref>

The red and green kangaroo paw was adopted as the state emblem of Western Australia in a proclamation on 9 October 1960.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.anbg.gov.au/emblems/wa-proclamation.html|title=Floral Emblems of Australia Proclamation|website=Australian National Herbarium|access-date=4 June 2017}}</ref> An image of a red and green kangaroo paw was superimposed onto a view of Perth from a distance on a 5 pence stamp, issued 1 November 1962, commemorating the [[1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games|Seventh British Empire and Commonwealth Games]] which were held in Perth that year. The stamp was designed by R. M. Warner. The red and green kangaroo paw was again included on a stamp on 10 July 1968, which were six cent stamps in a series of state floral emblems. It was designed by Nell Wilson.<ref name=":1" />

In 1990, disease was found on the kangaroo paw plant in Okinawa. The unreported fungi, which caused the plant to become very limp and wilt, was characterised by a discolouration of the plant leaving it a brown to black colour around the stalks, leaves and base of the plant. As the plant began to discolour over time, white cottony mycelia started to appear at the surface of the lesions and then the plant eventually died.<ref name=":0" />