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Persoonia confertiflora

Persoonia confertiflora
Photo: Melburnian, CC BY-SA 3.0

Persoonia confertiflora, cluster-flower geebung, is an erect to low-lying shrub from south-eastern Australia, growing in woodland and forest. It is grown mainly as a native garden shrub in well-drained, acidic soil.

Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then allow the top of the soil to dry between waterings; it dislikes waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained, acidic sandy or loamy soil; poor in phosphorus.
Temperature
Hardy to cool temperate conditions; protect from severe frost and heat, roughly -5 to 35 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SE Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Persoonia confertiflora, commonly known as cluster-flower geebung, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is an erect to low-lying shrub with hairy young branches, egg-shaped to narrow elliptic leaves, and hairy yellow flowers borne on leaf axils or on the ends of short branches.

Where it grows

Cluster-flower geebung grows in woodland and forest south from near Mount Kosciuszko in New South Wales to eastern Victoria.

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 confertiflora 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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