Persoonia oxycoccoides
Siebold. ex Spreng.
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Fruit
The small green fruit (1 cm long) are edible.
Where to Find It
It is a subtropical plant. It grows in dry forest. It grows on sandy soils. It needs well drained acid soils. It can tolerate frost and dry periods. In Wittunga Botanical Gardens Adelaide. It suits hardiness zones 8-10.
Australia*,
How to Identify
A very small shrub. It grows 0.5-1 m high and spreads 1-2.5 m wide. Young growth is hairy. There are many branches and they can lie along the ground. The small branches are reddish. The leaves are 0.4-1.2 cm long by 0.6 cm wide. They are narrowly oval. They are dark green and alternate. They are paler underneath. The edges curve back. The flowers are 0.8 cm across and yellow. They are often on leafy stalks 4 cm long. The fruit are 1 cm long by 0.6 cm wide. They are green.
How to Grow
It can be grown from seed or cuttings of very young growth.
Wikipedia
Source ↗Persoonia oxycoccoides is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to New South Wales, Australia. It is a spreading to prostrate shrub with smooth bark, hairy young branchlets, elliptic to egg-shaped leaves and yellow flowers arranged in groups of up to thirteen along a rachis that continues to grow after flowering.
Notes
There are about 90 Persoonia species. They grow in Australia. Many have fruit which are edible.
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