Hakea obtusa

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Common name:         ...

Conservation status: Least concern

• Hakea obtusa is classified "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government

Etymology:   

• The genus is named after Baron Christian Ludwig von Hake, an 18th-century German patron of botany

Flowers:                  

• It blooms profusely from May to September and produces sweetly scented white and pink flowers with long creamy white styles which appear at the nodes on bare wood

Fruit:                         

• The fruit are rough ovoid ending in a short sharp beak

Leaves:         

• The leaves are oblong-elliptic 3–10 cm long by 1–2 cm wide 

• They  have 3 distinctive longitudinal veins ending in a blunt point

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Habit:        

• Hakea obtusa is an open, rounded, stiff shrub typically growing to a height of 1.5 to 3 m and does not form a lignotuber

Habitat:   

• Grows in shrubland and low woodland on loamy-clay, gravel and ironstone

• A frost tolerant species that requires good drainage and a sunny aspect

Distribution:                  

• Hakea obtusa is confined to Ravensthorpe and the Fitzgerald River National Park

Additional notes:     

• Taxonomy

  • The species was first formally described by Carl Meisner in 1856.[2] Named from the Latin obtusus - blunt, referring to the shape of the leaf

Sources of information:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakea_obtusa (July 2024)