PlantFiles: Tree Hakea
Hakea eriantha

This Hakea is a large shrub or small rounded tree. The white flowers grow in clusters in the leaf axils and although numerous, are not conspicuous among the fairly dense foliage.
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. The capsules of this species are large, up to 30mm long and are shaped rather like a wooden shoe.
I have grown several from seed and have one in my front garden, which is now 4 metres tall and flowers and sets fruit regularly. The Yellow-Tailed Black Cockatoos, sometime feed on the fruit, but they don't like it as much as Hakea salicifolia.