Common Name: Erect Hakea
Botanical Name: Hakea carinata
Family: PROTEACEAE
Description:
Erect, rigid, somewhat untidy shrub, 1.5-3 m high. Long, narrow, linear, stiff, flattened, sharply pointed leaves, with prominent mid-vein, variable length and width, 5-20 cm long by 0.1-1 cm wide. Cream-white flowers, in small clusters in leaf axil. Spring (September to October). Woody, grey, smooth, beaked capsule, in tight clusters, to 1.5-2.5 cm long by 0.5-1 cm side, winged seed enclosed. Throughout the year.
Erect, rigid, somewhat untidy shrub, 1.5-3 m high. Long, narrow, linear, stiff, flattened, sharply pointed leaves, with prominent mid-vein, variable length and width, 5-20 cm long by 0.1-1 cm wide. Cream-white flowers, in small clusters in leaf axil. Spring (September to October). Woody, grey, smooth, beaked capsule, in tight clusters, to 1.5-2.5 cm long by 0.5-1 cm side, winged seed enclosed. Throughout the year.
Natural Distribution:
Distributed throughout higher rainfall areas in most mainland agricultural districts of SA (absent from Eyre Peninsula and Yorke Peninsula). Does not occur interstate. Common to woodland areas with a prominent heath understorey.
Distributed throughout higher rainfall areas in most mainland agricultural districts of SA (absent from Eyre Peninsula and Yorke Peninsula). Does not occur interstate. Common to woodland areas with a prominent heath understorey.
Notes:
Endemic to SA. Nectar of creamy-white clustered flowers attract birds.
Endemic to SA. Nectar of creamy-white clustered flowers attract birds.
