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Persoonia trinervis

Persoonia trinervis
Photo: Jean and Fred, CC BY 2.0

Persoonia trinervis is a Western Australian geebung, an erect shrub of heath and mallee woodland with yellow flowers in spring. Grow it in well-drained, low-nutrient soil in full sun, as most Australian natives are sensitive to phosphorus and wet roots.

Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; let the soil dry between waterings and avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Free-draining, sandy or gritty, low-phosphorus soil; acid-to-neutral mixes suit it.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates light frost once established, protect below about -5 °C.
How easy
Hard
Native range
SW. Australia

About

Persoonia trinervis is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, sometimes spreading shrub with densely hairy young branchlets, spatula-shaped or lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and densely hairy yellow flowers.

Where it grows

This geebung grows in heath and mallee woodland in the area between Mount Peron near Jurien Bay, Lake Grace, Frank Hann National Park and Watheroo 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 trinervis 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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