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Pincushion hakea

Hakea laurina

Description:

A 3 year old tree has just produced its first flowers. Approximately 4 metres tall; leaves are narrow, multi-veined, flowers are spectacular 40mm spheres (clustered flower heads) with longer creamy white styles protruding through a bed of deep cherry pink.

Habitat:

Suburban garden.

Notes:

Fast growing native.

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5 Comments

YurianaMartínez
YurianaMartínez 11 years ago

lovely pics! very nice plant

LeanneGardner
LeanneGardner 11 years ago

Love this.

MayraSpringmann
MayraSpringmann 11 years ago

Wonderful!

Jolly Ibañez
Jolly Ibañez 11 years ago

Interesting specimen

MartinL
MartinL 11 years ago

Nice. I love how the expanding flower pushes the bud scales off.

Mark Ridgway
Spotted by
Mark Ridgway

Victoria, Australia

Spotted on Jun 1, 2012
Submitted on Jun 1, 2012

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