Family: Proteaceae
Plant: An erect shrub up to 2m high with flaking black bark revealing a smooth red stem beneath.
Flowers: Yellow, sometimes sparsely hairy, tubular in bud with 4 petals curling backwards when open. The flowers are 1-1.5cm long, mostly subtended by scale-like leaves and are held erect on stalks 3-8mm long.
Flowering: September-December.
Fruit: Green, ovoid drupe about 1cm long with a long tip. The fruit turns purple when ripe.
Leaves: Thick bright green, fleshy, broad oblanceolate 8-20cm long and 2-8cm wide and oppositely arranged. In dry sclerophyll forest the leaves are often sickle-shaped with a rounded tip ending in a small point.
Habitat: Dry sclerophyll forest and heathland.
Features: Black flaky bark. Yellow flowers with backward-curling petals. Broad bright green leaves.
Name:
Persoonia After the Dutch botanist Christiaan Henrick Persoon
levis From Latin = smooth (referring to its leaves)
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Shrub |
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Flowers |
Form |
Tubular/Bell-shaped, Single |
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Colour(s) |
Yellow |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
4 |
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Flowering Month |
9, 10, 11, 12 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Drupe |
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Colour |
Green, Purple |
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Other Features |
- |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Alternate, Opposite |
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Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
Oval |
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Length |
Medium, Long |
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Margins |
Entire |
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Attachment |
Unstalked |
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Other Features |
- |
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Bark |
Papery/Flaky |
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Habitat |
Dry sclerophyll forest, Heathland |
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