Hakea suaveolens R.Br.
fork-leaved hakea
Large, rather erect shrub. Shoots with appressed hairs, strongly compressed. Lvs terete, 40-110 × 1.5-2 mm, initially hairy, becoming glabrous, simple or pinnate with 2-7 terete pinnae (different forms on the same plant), rigid and spiny. Fls up to c. 50 in dense short racemes. Rachis villous, c. 1.5 cm long. Pedicels 3-5 mm long, glabrous. Perianth white, glabrous, < pedicels. Ovary sessile, glabrous; style glabrous; stigma cone erect, symmetric. Fr. 2-2.5 × 1.6-2 cm, pale brown, slightly to moderately rugose; beak very short, incurved. Seed 17-20 × c. 6 mm (including wing), black; wing extending down 1 side.
N.: N. Auckland, Auckland area, particularly Blockhouse Bay.
W. Australia 1935
Leptospermum scrub.
FL Apr-Aug.
Fork-leaved hakea is apparently the least common of the 4 naturalised spp., although like the others it has long been wild and has caused concern because of its aggressive tendencies. In this sp., the seedling lvs differ from those of the adult plant in being obovate and serrate, while the semi-juvenile lvs are subterete with many pinnae.
