PlantFiles: Furze Hakea
Hakea ulicina

Furze Hakea is a small shrub, which like many Hakeas has prickly leaves, although not as formidable as some of the needle-leaved hakeas. The leaves are stiff and narrow, with a sharp hard point on the end.
The flowers are creamy-white in clusters in the leaf-axils.
Like all Hakeas, the seed are in hard woody capsules, which are held on the shrub indefinitely, but which open a few days after picking to release two winged seeds.
They grow mainly in Eastern Victoria in Australia and are not uncommon locally. I have collected seed for revegetation projects locally and have grown one shrub myself from seed. It flowers and fruits regularly in my garden, and is quite attractive although nothing special.