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Common names used for Hakea species
Note that these names may be very regional in their use and the same common name can often mean different species in different areas of Australia e.g. corkwood and needlewood are general terms referring to whichever of a number of possible species is found in the area concerned. One of the corkwoods (H. divaricata) is even referred to as Needlewood in Western Australia. Fan Hakea or Fan-leaved Hakea is apparently used interchangeably for H. baxteri, H. brownii or H. flabellifolia. This list is not meant to be exhaustive and nor is it meant to be definitive in the spelling or capitalization of the common names since this too is a contentious area.
Ashy Hakea = Hakea cinerea
Autumn Needlebush = Hakea megadenia
Barren Range Hakea = Hakea hookeriana
Bird Hakea = Hakea orthorrhyncha
Bird Beak Hakea = Hakea orthorrhyncha
Blue Hakea = Hakea lehmanniana
Bootlace Oak = Hakea lorea or has also been used with respect to Hakea persiehana
Bottle-brush Hakea = Hakea francisiana
Broad-leaved Hakea = Hakea dactyloides (NSW)
Broad Seeded Hakea = Hakea platysperma
Candle Hakea = Hakea ruscifolia
Cauliflower Hakea = Hakea corymbosa
Coastal Hakea = Hakea clavata
Column Hakea = Hakea aculeata
Common Hakea = Hakea arborescens
Corkbark = any of Hakea chordophylla, Hakea divaricata, Hakea ednieana, Hakea eyreana, Hakea fraseri, Hakea lorea, Hakea ivoryi, Hakea macrocarpa, Hakea pulvinifera
Corkwood = any of Hakea chordophylla, Hakea divaricata, Hakea ednieana, Hakea eyreana, Hakea fraseri, Hakea lorea, Hakea ivoryi, Hakea macrocarpa, Hakea pulvinifera
Cricket Ball Hakea = Hakea platysperma
Curved Fruit Hakea = Hakea cyclocarpa
Dagger Hakea = Hakea teretifolia
Djarnokmurd = Hakea recurva (WA)
Duck and Drake Bush = Hakea lissocarpha
Dungyn = Hakea oleifolia (WA)
Elm-seed Hakea = Hakea cycloptera
Emu Tree = Hakea francisiana
Fan Hakea = Hakea baxteri or Hakea brownii
Fan-leaved Hakea = Hakea flabellifolia
Finger Hakea = Hakea dactyloides
Flinders Range Hakea. = Hakea ednieana
Frog Hakea = Hakea nitida
Furrowed Hakea = Hakea sulcata
Furze Hakea = Hakea ulicina
Grass-leaf Hakea = Hakea multilineata
Hairy Hakea = Hakea gibbosa
Harsh Hakea = Hakea prostrata
Hedgehog Hakea. = Hakea erinacea
Honey Bush = Hakea lissocarpha
Horned Leaf Hakea = Hakea ceratophylla
Hood-leaved Hakea = Hakea cucullata
Hooked Needlewood = Hakea tephrosperma
Kangaroo Island Hakea = Hakea aenigma
Lesser-beaked Hakea = Hakea megadenia
Lesueur Hakea = Hakea megalosperma
Long-styled Hakea = Hakea lasiocarpha (previously H. dolichostyla)
Macraes Hakea = Hakea macraeana
Marble Hakea = Hakea incrassata
Mulloway Needle Bush = Hakea actites
Myrtle Hakea = Hakea myrtoides
Narrow-fruited Hakea = Hakea stenocarpa
Needlebush = Hakea leucoptera, Hakea lissosperma
Needle Hakea = Hakea leucoptera
Needle Tree = Hakea preissii
Needlewood = Hakea leucoptera in many cases, but also used more widely for any species with simple terete leaves
Needles and corks = Hakea obliqua or Hakea psilorrhyncha
Oval-leaf Hakea = Hakea elliptica
Pin Bush = Hakea leucoptera
Pincushion Hakea = Hakea laurina
Prickly Hakea = Hakea amplexicaulis
Rams Horn = Hakea cyclocarpa
Red Pokers = Hakea bucculenta
Ribbed Hakea = Hakea costata
Rock Hakea = Hakea gibbosa
Royal Hakea = Hakea victoria
Shell-leaved Hakea = Hakea conchifolia
Shining Hakea = Hakea nitida
Short-winged Hakea = Hakea brachyptera
Silky Hakea = Hakea sericea
Silver Needlewood = Hakea leucoptera
Small-fruit Hakea = Hakea microcarpa
Snail Hakea = Hakea cristata
Spike Hakea = Hakea ruscifolia
Standback = Hakea recurva
Swan-fruit Hakea = Hakea cygna
Sweet Hakea = Hakea drupacea
Two-leaf Hakea = Hakea trifurcata
Variable-leaved Hakea = Hakea varia
Wallum Hakea = Hakea actites
Water Tree Kulua = Hakea leucoptera
Wavy-leaved Hakea = Hakea undulata
Wedge Hakea = Hakea flabellifolia
Wild Bean = Hakea cyclocarpa
Willow Hakea = Hakea salicifolia ssp. salicifolia
Willow-leaved Hakea = Hakea salicifolia ssp. salicifolia
Willow Needlewood = Hakea macraeana
Witinti = Hakea lorea (WA)
Woolly-flowered Hakea = Hakea lasiantha
Yellow Needlebush = Hakea nodosa
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