Family: Proteaceae
Plant: A shrub up to 2m high with smooth light to mid-grey bark.
Flowers: Yellow and lightly hairy, tubular in bud with petals curling backwards when open. The flowers are 1-1.5cm long and are solitary on short stalks in the leaf axils. The anthers are yellow.
Flowering: Mainly in January-December.
Fruit: Yellow-green, ovoid drupe 1cm long turning purple when ripe.
Leaves: Yellow-green, oblanceolate to obovate 3-10cm long and 4-30mm wide, flat, smooth and stiff.
Habitat: Dry sclerophyll forest and heathland.
Features: Yellow-green leaves. Yellow flowers with backward-curling petals and yellow anthers. Fruit a yellow-green drupe turning purple when ripe.
Name:
Persoonia After the Dutch botanist Christiaan Henrick Persoon
lanceolata From Latin = lance-shaped (referring to its leaves)
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Type |
Shrub |
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Flowers |
Form |
Tubular/Bell-shaped, Cluster |
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Colour(s) |
Yellow |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
4 |
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Flowering Month |
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, |
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10, 11, 12 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Drupe |
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Colour |
Yellow, Green, Purple |
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Other Features |
Fleshy |
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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 |
Short, Medium |
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Margins |
Entire |
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Attachment |
Unstalked |
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Other Features |
- |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Dry sclerophyll forest, Heathland |
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