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Describe the plant here...
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Hakea laurina, R. Br.(tf. eucalyptoides, Meissn.).SEAljRCHiN. Fig. 1 780. Tall shrub, to 30 ft., and tree-like in Austral. : lvs. elliptic or lanceolate, 5 or 6 in. long, ½ -l in. wide, tapering to a petiole; principal veins 3-7,nearly parallel : fls. crimson, in a globular involucrate head, l ½ -2 in. thick, from which the numerous showy golden yellow styles project 1 in. or so in every direction: fr. ovoid, about 1 ¼ in- long by ¾ in. broad, short-beaked. B.M. 7127. G.C. II. 23:149.— The only species with showy fls. here described; equally satisfactory for shrubberies and for hedges; always highly ornamental. In Italy it has been called "the glory of the gardens of the Riviera."
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==Cultivation==
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==Species==
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==References==
*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
<!--- xxxxx *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381 -->
<!--- xxxxx *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432 -->
<!--- xxxxx *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608 -->
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