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Persoonia media

Persoonia media
Photo: Poyt448 Peter Woodard, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Native range
SE. Queensland to NE. New South Wales
Climate
wet tropical

About

Persoonia media is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect to spreading shrub or tree with branchlets and leaves that are glabrous or only sparsely hairy, elliptic to egg-shaped and up to sixteen yellow flowers on a rachis up to 150 mm (5.9 in) long.

Where it grows

This geebung is found on the Lamington and Springbrook Plateaus in south-eastern Queensland, and south through the Nightcap National Park, the upper Manning River, the eastern part of the New England Tableland and as far south as Barrington Tops. It grows in forest, including rainforest on soils derived from igneous and metamorphic rocks.

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 media by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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