Hakea lorea R.Br.

Tree to 10 m high or shrub 1-5 m high, lignotuberous. Branchlets and leaves densely appressed-pubescent to woolly-tomentose, sometimes with simple glandular hairs as well, rarely these alone; branchlet hairs ±persistent, ultimately glabrescent; leaves quickly glabrescent. Leaves terete, erect to pendulous, either simple and (13-) 15-68 cm long and 0.9-2.5 mm wide, or compound and (13-) 14-35 cm long, with undivided base 4-18 cm long and 2-6 (-9) narrowly spreading segments 0.5-13 (-20) cm long, 1-2.4 mm wide. Inflorescence with (3-) 15-200 flowers; rachis (20-) 50-250 mm long, densely pubescent, rarely glabrous or with simple gland-tipped hairs, with indumentum similar on pedicels and perianth. Flowers white to yellow or greenish; pedicels (3-) 3.5-13 (-15) mm long. Perianth 5-11 (-12) mm long. Pistil 15-28 (-33) mm long; style straight or curved; pollen presenter oblique. Fruit 2.5-5.4 cm long, beaked for c. half length; valves obliquely ovate, (0.9-) 1.3-2 (-2.8) cm wide. Seed occupying c. half valve, 2.2-3.8 cm long, (0.7-) 0.8-1.7 cm wide; wing c. halfway down one side only.

A tropical plant. It grows in sandy loams on plains. It grows on rocky soils. It can tolerate frosts. It needs a warm sunny position and a well-drained soil. It suits hardiness zones 10-12.

The flowers are either sucked to get the nectar or squeezed into water to produce a sweet drink.

Plants are grown from seed.