Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Hakea sericea
Common name
Needlebush
Family
Proteaceae
Where found
Forest and heath. Coast and ranges mainly north of Bega.
Notes
Shrub to 4.5 m high. Leaf tips sharp. Young stems densely white-woolly, often becoming hairless with age. Leaves alternating up the stems, mostly 2–7 cm long, 0.7–1 mm in diameter, cylindrical, rigid, lower surface grooved, moderately appressed-silky, quickly becoming hairless; tips pointed outward, with a mucro 1-2 mm long. Flowers with 4 white or cream 'petals' 2.5–5 mm long, free from each other when the flowers are fully open, hairless. Gynoecium 4.5–7.5 mm long. Unit clusters 1–7-flowered, often several clusters close together. Flowering: winter to spring. 'Nut' more or less round to oval, 20–40 mm long, 20–32 mm wide, finely or coarsely warty to deeply wrinkled, beak 3–4 mm long, more or less smooth. Seeds with one wing.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Hakea~sericea (accessed 8 April 2021)
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