Persoonia media
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Where to Find It
It grows in subtropical and warm temperate locations. It can be on the edges of rainforest. It needs good drainage and an acid soil. It can tolerate some frost.
Australia*,
How to Identify
A medium sized shrub. It grows 3-8 m high and spreads 1.5-4 m wide. It has woody tubers under the ground. There can be one or more trunks. The bark is rough at the base. The leaves are 3-14 cm long by 0.4-3.5 cm wide. They are narrowly oval. They are alternate and green. The edges curve back. The flowers are 1 cm across and yellow. They occur singly in the axils of leaves. The fruit is fleshy with a hard stone inside. They are 1.5 cm long by 0.9 cm wide. They are green with purple marks.
How to Grow
Plants can be grown from seed or cuttings of very young growth.
Wikipedia
Source ↗Persoonia media is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect to spreading shrub or tree with branchlets and leaves that are glabrous or only sparsely hairy, elliptic to egg-shaped and up to sixteen yellow flowers on a rachis up to 150 mm (5.9 in) long.
Notes
There are about 90 Persoonia species. They grow in Australia. Many have fruit which are edible.
References (4)
- Cribb, A.B. & J.W., 1976, Wild Food in Australia, Fontana. p 49
- Elliot, W.R., & Jones, D.L., 1997, Encyclopedia of Australian Plants suitable for cultivation. Vol 7. Lothian. p 222
- Flora of Australia Volume 16, Elaeagnaceae, Proteaceae 1. Melbourne: CSIRO Australia (1995) p 87
- Suppl. prodr. fl. Nov. Holl. 16. 1830
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