Hakea drupacea R.Br.

Dense spreading or erect shrub or tree, 1-4 m tall. Branchlets appressed-pubescent. Leaves simple-or compound-terete, 3-13 cm long, 1-1.6 mm wide, flexible, grooved above or not, glabrous or appressed-pubescent; ultimate segments 2-8. Inflorescence axillary raceme with 46-84 flowers; involucre 4.5-12 mm long; rachis 17-26 mm long, appressed-pubescent, with hairs white or pale brown; pedicels 4-10 mm long. Perianth 3-4 mm long, pale pink ageing white. Pistil 3.5-4.5 mm long. Fruit obliquely ovate, 2-2.5 cm long, 1.6-1.9 cm wide, black-pusticulate; apiculum to 1.5 mm long; horns 2-4 mm long. Seed ovate or elliptic, 16-20 mm long; wing partly down one side of seed body only.

Almost always associated with granite hillsides, more rarely quartzite areas or coastal limestone cliffs, in open heath or low shrubland or on Middle Island as a rare understorey plant in Eucalyptus platypus var heterophylla forest.

Can be grown by seedlings.