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Hakea leucoptera
Also called Needlebush, Needlewood, Pinbush, Silver Needlewood, Waterbush, Watertree
Hakea leucoptera, commonly known as silver needlewood, needle hakea, pin bush or water tree and as booldoobah in the Koori language, is a shrub or small tree with rigid, cylindrical, sharply pointed leaves and white, cream-coloured or yellow flowers in late spring and early summer. It is widespread and common in central parts of the Australian mainland.
It is found in every state of Australia except Tasmania and is commonly known as a dry country species particularly arid and semi arid regions.
Shrubby forms are palatable to stock but only in times of acute feed shortage.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hakea leucoptera by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
