Hakea leucoptera R.Br.

Small shrub or tree 1-8 m high, resprouting from base. Branchlets pubescent, glabrescent. Leaves terete, not grooved, 3.5-10 cm long, 1.3-2 mm wide, white-pubescent, glabrescent; apex porrect or uncinate, with mucro 1.5-5.5 mm long. Inflorescence of 18-45 flowers; rachis simple, or with 1 or 2 basal buds, 6-14 mm long, white woolly-pubescent or white or sometimes also brown appressed-pubescent; pedicels 2-6.5 mm long; pedicel and perianth glabrous or sparsely to moderately densely short-tomentose. Perianth 3-4.5 mm long. Pistil 7-11 mm long. Fruit 1.7-3.2 cm long, 1-2 cm wide, smooth, sometimes sparsely pusticulate; horns obscure. Seed with wing decurrent half to fully down one side, not to very shortly down other, cream to brown-white, sometimes darker at base.

It grows in warm temperate places and suits arid or semiarid locations. It needs well drained soil. It needs full sun. It can stand heavy frosts. It grows in areas with an annual rainfall between 230-460 mm. It can grow in arid places. It suits hardiness zones 9-11.

The watery sap from the roots is used for survival in desert areas.

Plants form root suckers and could be grown from these. Plants can be grown from seed.