Hakea salicifolia (Vent.) B.L.Burtt

Hackéa à feuilles de saule (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Proteales > Proteaceae > Hakea

Characteristics

Upright tall shrub or small tree 3-5 m high, ?non-lignotuberous. Branchlets with several prominent longitudinal ribs, ±deep red, lenticellate, glabrous. Leaves narrowly elliptic, 8-15 cm long, 4-17 (-27) mm wide, narrowly attenuate, usually acute or acuminate, more rarely obtuse, blackened apically but scarcely mucronate, moderately appressed-sericeous with white and ferruginous hairs when young, rapidly glabrescent; young leaves darker. Involucral buds 3 mm long, subglabrous externally. Inflorescence a single umbel of 16-28 white flowers in upper axils (possibly also on older wood in subsp. angustifolia ); rachis 1-1.5 mm long; pedicels 4.5-7 mm long. Perianth 2-3.5 mm long, glabrous, glaucous; inner surface of tepals sometimes with dense glandular-verrucose covering above ovary. Pistil 6-6.5 mm long. Fruit obliquely ovate, 2.3-3.5 cm long, 1.3-2.3 (-3) cm wide in median view, basally attenuate, with raised black pusticules or 1-5 mm high blunt and black-topped warts; beak smooth or with blunt-topped warts; horns often eroded; red-brown wood zone 2.5 mm wide. Seed 17-20 mm long.
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Large erect shrub or small tree, glabrous except for silky hairs on very young shoots and lvs. Shoots angular. Lvs sessile to shortly petiolate, flattened, 60-110 × 5-15 mm, narrowly elliptic-oblong or narrow-elliptic, entire, coriaceous; base attenuate; apex acute, not spiny. Fls in fascicles of up to c. 20. Pedicels 3-7 mm long. Perianth white, < pedicel; limb curled back against tube. Ovary sessile; style glabrous; stigma cone large, oblique. Fr. 2-2.7 × 1.3-1.6 cm, tuberculate; beak curved. Seed 15-20 × 5-7 mm (including wing), black; wing extending down 1 side.
Shrub or small tree, 2.5-5.5 m high, shoots silky when young, glabrous later. Leaves entire, linear to lanceolate, 50-100 x 15-20 mm, coriaceous, dark green, glabrous, young leaves reddish. Flowers in dense, axillary clusters, pedicellate, fragrant, white. Flowering time Sept., Oct. Fruit a hard, woody follicle, grey with dark warts, opening into 2 valves.
A shrub. It grows 2-5 m tall. The leaves are drooping. The leaves are 5-12 cm long by 8-18 mm wide. The flowers are white and in dense clusters. They are 11 mm long by 5 mm wide. The fruit is a hard woody follicle. It is 2-3 cm long by 1-2 cm wide. The fruit are silvery grey with a lumpy surface. There are 2 winged seeds.
It has Eucalyptus-like linear-elliptic leaves, 7-12 × 0.6-1.3 cm., clusters of small cream or yellow flowers in the leaf-axils and warty woody fruits with a short blunt beak.
Shrub or bushy tree to 5(-8) m. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 50-100 mm long. Flowers in axillary clusters, white. Fruits warty.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread epizoochory
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Mature height (meter) 3.0 - 5.0
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

It is a temperate plant.
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Soil humidity 4-6
Soil texture 5-6
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

Usage

The flower nectar is edible. The seeds are roasted and eaten.
Uses environmental use material medicinal
Edible flowers seeds
Therapeutic use Antiviral agents (aerial part), Central nervous system depressants (aerial part), Hypotension (aerial part), Parasympatholytics (aerial part), Cyanogenetic (unspecified), Analgesics (unspecified), Antiviral agents (unspecified), Cardiovascular system (unspecified), Central nervous system depressants (unspecified)
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Images

Leaf

Hakea salicifolia leaf picture by Pilkington Gabriela (cc-by-sa)

Flower

Hakea salicifolia flower picture by Oooooo Jan (cc-by-sa)

Fruit

Hakea salicifolia fruit picture by Eli (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Hakea salicifolia world distribution map, present in Australia, France, New Zealand, and South Africa

Conservation status

Hakea salicifolia threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:704322-1
WFO ID wfo-0000714461
COL ID 6KY9H
BDTFX ID 30805
INPN ID 100712
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Embothrium salicifolium Embothrium salignum Hakea mimosoides Hakea salicifolia Conchium salicifolium Conchium salignum Hakea saligna Banksia saligna Hakea saligna var. angustifolia