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Persoonia brevirhachis

Persoonia brevirhachis
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

Persoonia brevirhachis is a native shrub of south-west Western Australia, a geebung with yellow flowers and small edible-type drupes. It suits a sunny, well-drained spot in a dry, heathland-style garden and is rarely grown outside its native range.

Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water sparingly once established; allow soil to dry between waterings and avoid wet feet.
Soil
Free-draining, sandy or gravelly, low-phosphorus soil; acidic to neutral.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates light frost, protect below -5 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
SW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Persoonia brevirhachis is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, often spreading shrub with smooth, compact bark, mostly narrow spatula-shaped to lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base and yellow to greenish yellow flowers borne singly or in pairs in leaf axils.

Where it grows

This geebung grows in heath between Lake Grace, Newdegate and Ravensthorpe in the south-west of Western Australia.

Other Persoonia plants

Needle Geebung · Persoonia acicularis · Persoonia acuminata · Persoonia adenantha · Persoonia amaliae · Persoonia angustiflora · The Tree Geebung · Geebung · Persoonia baeckeoides · Bargo Geebung · Persoonia biglandulosa · Persoonia bowgada

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Persoonia brevirhachis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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