{"id":4305,"date":"2013-08-23T16:23:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T08:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=4305"},"modified":"2013-08-25T16:35:19","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T08:35:19","slug":"prickly-hakea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/23\/prickly-hakea\/","title":{"rendered":"Prickly Hakea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130823-043.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4306\" alt=\"20130823 043\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130823-043-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130823-043-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130823-043.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The\u00a0Prickly Hakea\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au\/browse\/profile\/2128\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Hakea amplexicaulisis<\/em><\/a>) are starting to unfold their flower heads. \u00a0These shrubs are native to this area in the southwest of Western Australia and we have about 5 specimen in the western part of the forest. \u00a0Our\u00a0Prickly Hakea are pretty spindly looking and will only grow to a height of 2 to 3 metres. \u00a0They have prickly leaves spiralling around the stem. \u00a0According to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hakea_amplexicaulis\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a>, the species was first formally described by Robert Brown in 1810. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hakea\" target=\"_blank\">Hakea<\/a> \u00a0is a genus of 149 species of Proteaceae, native to Australia, with the highest species diversity in this area. \u00a0 Hakeas are closely related to the genus Grevillea of the subfamily Grevilleoideae within the family Proteaceae. Many species have similar flowers, but hakeas can be <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130823-053.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4318\" alt=\"20130823 053\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130823-053-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130823-053-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130823-053.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>distinguished by their woody seed pods, like the <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/26\/woody-pear\/\">Woody Pear<\/a>. \u00a0(<em>Hakeas are named after Baron Christian Ludwig von Hake, the 18th century German patron of botany, following Heinrich Schrader&#8217;s description of Hakea teretifolia in 1797.<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Prickly Hakea\u00a0(Hakea amplexicaulisis) are starting to unfold their flower heads. \u00a0These shrubs are native to this area in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,19,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flowers","category-property","category-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130823-043.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4305"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4359,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305\/revisions\/4359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}