''Hakea leucoptera'', commonly known as silver needlewood, needle hakea, pin bush or water tree and as booldoobah in

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n mainland. Hakea leucoptera

Description

The habit of this plant is highly variable. It can be a small open branched tree to or a small multi stemmed shrub to . The habitat is usually coarse textured soils and associated with a wide variety of species in

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communities. It is widespread throughout all mainland states occurring in dense thickets of shrubs, as scattered individual trees or a large parent tree surrounded by offspring. It has a reddish-brown close-grained

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that is soft but hard and brittle when dry. The silvery grey to grey-blue leaves are arranged alternately along the stems. They are rigid and cylindrical in varying length from long and approximately wide with a sharp pointed tip. The young leaves are

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