Hakea bicornata

Hakea bicornata is a shrub in the family Proteaceae native to Western Australia, with attractive creamy-white flowers and fruit with two distinctive horns.

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Hakea bicornata is a lignotuberous, multiple stemmed shrub 0.8 to 2 metres (2.6 to 6.6 ft) high. The many smaller branches are rusty coloured and covered with small hairs. The simple rust coloured leaves grow alternately along the stem; they are 7 to 13 centimetres (2.8 to 5.1 in) long and 1.2 to 1.5 millimetres (0.047 to 0.059 in) wide, ending in a point 1.5–2.5 mm (0.06–0.1 in) long. The young leaves are densely covered in matted silky hairs but become smooth as they mature. It produces cream-white to yellow flowers from April to May and occasionally August. Each inflorescence is composed of eight cream-white to yellow flowers on an obscure stem. The perianth is cream-white about 2.5 mm (0.098 in) long. The pistil is about 4 mm (0.157 in) long with an oblique conical pollen presenter. Fruit are oval to egg-shaped 15 to 22 mm (0.59 to 0.87 in) long and 12 to 15 mm (0.472 to 0.591 in) wide with a pair of distinctive narrow horns 5 to 6 mm (0.197 to 0.236 in) long. The fruit are pale grey with black blister-like protuberances. The dark brown to black egg-shaped seeds have a wing down one side.