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Persoonia tenuifolia

Persoonia tenuifolia
Photo: Steven Dew, CC BY 3.0

Persoonia tenuifolia, fine-leaf geebung, is a spreading to low shrub from eastern Australia with thin needle-like leaves and yellow flowers. It suits well-drained, sunny sites and is grown mainly by native plant enthusiasts.

Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then sparingly once established; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained, acidic, sandy or gravelly soil low in phosphorus.
Temperature
Tolerates cool to warm temperatures; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SE. Queensland to NE. New South Wales

About

Persoonia tenuifolia, commonly known as fine-leaf geebung is a plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect to low-lying shrub with hairy young branchlets, linear leaves, and yellow flowers in groups of up to eight on a rachis 2–30 mm (0.079–1.181 in) long that continues to grow after flowering.

Where it grows

Fine-leaf geebung grows in heath and forest from sea level to an altitude of 1,050 m (3,440 ft). It is found in near-coastal areas between Bundaberg in Queensland and Grafton in New South Wales and well as on the Great Dividing Range and nearby tablelands from Dalveen in Queensland to the Torrington and Yetman districts in New South Wales.

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 tenuifolia 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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