Hakea lissocarpha, commonly known as honey bush or the duck and drake bush,[3] is a shrub of the genus Hakea native to a large area in the Mid West, Wheatbelt, Peel, South West, Great Southern and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia.

[4] The pungent lignotuberous, dense, spreading shrub typically grows to a height of 0.4 to 1.5 metres (1 to 5 ft) with smooth to roughish grey bark.

It blooms from May to September and produces vert sweetly scented white-cream/yellow/pink flowers in racemes in the leaf axils and upper branchlets.

[4] It is named from the Greek lissos - smooth and carphos - dry grass, referring to the bracts surrounding the flower bud.

[5] A variable and common species, widespread from coast of Northampton to Israelite Bay.