Hakea sericea

Hakea sericea, commonly known as needlebush or silky hakea, is a large species of shrub native to Australia. It is native to New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania but is found outside these states. Hakea sericea is a large spreading non-lignotuberous bushy shrub and may grow to 3 m (10 ft) with pubescent branchlets covered in whitish woolly hairs. From winter to early spring inflorescence appear in umbels of 1-6 flowers in leaf axils, pinkish in bud and maturing to white.Terete leaves are grooved on the undersurface and up to 7 cm (3 in) long and 0.7–1.3 mm (0.03–0.05 in) wide and sharply pointed.Fruit have a rough surface are 2.5–3 cm (1–1 in) long by 2 cm (0.8 in) wide ending with a short smooth beak. Hakea sericea was first formally described by Heinrich Adolph Schrader and Johann Christoph Wendland in 1796. The genus Hakea is named after Baron von Hake, patron of botany in the 18th century. Sericea meaning silky, referring to the tiny hairs on young growth.