Olive Pink Botanic Garden

OPBG FloraBean Tree Bush Hibiscus Bush Plum Caper Bush / Wild Passionfruit Dead Finish Ghost Gum Heart-leaved Frankenia Krichauff Ranges Fuchsia Mulga Needlewood Pink Fire-bush Potato Bush Prickly Wattle Red-Bud Mallee Shrubby Fox-tail (Ptilotus whitei) Sticky Hopbush (Dodonaea viscosa) Sturt’s Desert Rose Tall Saltbush Wild Tomato Wire-Leaf Mistletoe

The sharp pointed leaves of the Needlewood (Hakea leucoptera) can be seen in the Olive Pink Botanic Garden.

Needlewood (Hakea leucoptera), Olive Pink Botanic Garden Alice Springs NT
Needlewood (Hakea leucoptera), Olive Pink Botanic Garden Alice Springs NT

A shrub to small tree, the Needlewood (Hakea leucoptera) has white-creamed coloured to yellow flowers that appear in early spring and summer. The spider-like flowers are located at the base of the sharp leaves in clusters of 18-45 flowers.

More information in our Flora section on the Needlewood (Hakea leucoptera) and the Needlewood Hakea in a garden in Alice Springs NT.


  • Scientific classification
  • Kingdom: Plantae
  • Phylum: Charophyta
  • Class: Equisetopsida
  • Subclass: Magnoliidae
  • Superorder: Proteanae
  • Order: Proteales
  • Family: Proteaceae
  • Genus: Hakea
  • Species: Hakea Leucoptera

Footnote & References

  1. Hakea leucoptera R.Br., Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://id.biodiversity.org.au/node/apni/2911444
  2. Hakea Leucoptera, Woolshed Thurgoona Landcare Group, https://wtlandcare.org/details/hakea-leucoptera/

OPBG FloraBean Tree Bush Hibiscus Bush Plum Caper Bush / Wild Passionfruit Dead Finish Ghost Gum Heart-leaved Frankenia Krichauff Ranges Fuchsia Mulga Needlewood Pink Fire-bush Potato Bush Prickly Wattle Red-Bud Mallee Shrubby Fox-tail (Ptilotus whitei) Sticky Hopbush (Dodonaea viscosa) Sturt’s Desert Rose Tall Saltbush Wild Tomato Wire-Leaf Mistletoe

Olive Pink Botanic GardenOPBG Fauna OPBG Flora