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Mountain Needlewood
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Mountain Needlewood

Hakea lissosperma

Hakea lissosperma is a type of spreading shrub with almost 4 metres height, needle-shaped leaves and white flowers. In 1999 it was recognised that it grows commonly in over 1200 m rocky mountains, in subalpine woodland. And common names include needle bush and mountain needlewood. What is more, this species is a favourite of birds due to the dense clusters of flowers and pungent rigid needle-shaped leaves which can be a shelter against predators. It is...

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 323333.