Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Hakea propinqua

Flowering stems. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer A McWhirter, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering stems with 'nuts'. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer A McWhirter, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

A hakea

Family

Proteaceae

Where found

Forest. Coast and ranges north of Wollongong.

Notes

Shrub to 2 m high. Leaf tips sharp. Young growth sparsely hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, crowded, 2–5 cm long, about 1 mm in diameter, cylindrical, somewhat flexible, not grooved, surfaces hairless; tips with a mucro 0.7-1.6 mm long. Flowers yellowish in forms from the higher altitudes, white in coastal forms, with 4 'petals' 3–4 mm long, free from each other when the flowers are fully open, hairless. Gynoecium 4-4.5 mm long. Flowers in few-flowered clusters, often several clusters close together. Flowering: winter and spring. 'Nuts' round to oval, 30–40 mm long, 25–30 mm wide, very rough with pointed warty protuberances, with or without a very small beak. Seeds with one wing.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Hakea~propinqua   (accessed 8 April 2021)