Hakea leucoptera subsp. leucoptera
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| Needlebush | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Proteales |
| Family: | Proteaceae |
| Genus: | Hakea |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | H. l. subsp. leucoptera |
| Trinomial name | |
| Hakea leucoptera subsp. leucoptera | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
Hakea leucoptera subsp. leucoptera commonly known as silver needlewood, needlewood, needle bush, needle hakea[3] or kulua,[4] is a shrub or small tree with cylinder-shaped leaves, white or cream flowers, white, woolly hairs on the flower stalks and grows in Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria and the Northern Territory.
Hakea leucoptera subsp. leucoptera is tree or shrub 1–8 m (3 ft 3 in – 26 ft 3 in) high, usually upright with an open crown. Leaves are arranged alternately, stiff, terete, 3.5–10 cm (1.4–3.9 in) long, 1.3–2 m (4 ft 3 in – 6 ft 7 in) wide, hairy, grey-green and ending a sharp point. Whit or cream flowers are borne clusters of 18-45 on a pedicel 2–6.5 cm (0.79–2.56 in) long. Flowering occurs from late spring to summer and the fruit is a woody capsule 17–32 mm (0.67–1.26 in) long, mostly smooth, occasionally warty and tapering to a narrow beak.[5][6]