Persoonia lanceolata
Persoonia lanceolata is a shrub native to New South Wales in eastern Australia. It is usually found in dry sclerophyll forest on sandstone-based nutrient-deficient soil. Small yellow flowers grow on racemes and appear in the austral summer and autumn.
About Persoonia lanceolata in brief
Persoonia lanceolata is a shrub native to New South Wales in eastern Australia. It is usually found in dry sclerophyll forest on sandstone-based nutrient-deficient soil. Small yellow flowers grow on racemes and appear in the austral summer and autumn, followed by green fleshy fruits the following spring. It belongs to the l Lanceolata group, a group of 58 closely related species with similar flowers but very different foliage. It has adapted to a fire-prone environment; plants lost in bushfires can regenerate through a ground-stored seed bank. Swamp wallabies are a main consumer of its fruit, and the seeds are spread in wallaby faeces. Its lifespan ranges from 25 to 60 years, though difficulties in propagation have seen low cultivation rates. It interbreeds with several other species found in its range, and hybrids of P. lanceolata with P. katerae, P.levis and P.
linearis have been recorded near Hill Top in the Southern Highlands. The glaucous-leaved P. glaucescens was formerly considered a subspecies, but no intermediate forms have been. recorded from where the two taxa grow together near Hilltop in the southern Highlands. It can grow up to 3 m in height and has smooth grey bark and bright green foliage. The finely yellow flowers appear mainly from January to April, but may be encountered at any time of the year. The leaves are concolorous, with a yellowish tint at times, that is both leaf surfaces that is concolourous. P. lanceOLata is described as auxelotic, which means auxelic means both auxelous and auxilotic. The specific epithet is the Latin word lancelata, meaning’spear-shaped’, and refers to the shape of the leaves. The term geebung is derived from the Dharug language word geeBung.
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