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hakea

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hakea
any shrub or tree of the Australian genus Hakea, having a hard woody fruit and often yielding a useful wood: family Proteaceae


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Some other nonnative families with showy flowers are: hesperaloe, grevillea, hakea, acacia and caesalpina.
The pickets continued until injuries occurred to two nurses on picket duty at Hakea and Casuarina, when nurses considered it was too dangerous to carry on.
Like plants in similar conditions elsewhere in the world, shrubs such as banksia and hakea protect their seeds from fire by storing them in woody cones that release them when burned.
 
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