Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Persoonia silvatica
Common name
Forest Geebung
Family
Proteaceae
Where found
Forest and woodland. Coast, ranges, and tablelands, mainly south from the Budawang Range. Kosciuszko National Park. Possibly ACT.
Notes
Tree or shrub to about 11 m high, hairs fawnish or silvery to greyish appressed to spreading hairs. Fruit fleshy. Bark with fine fissures, often smooth. Young branchlets sparsely to moderately hairy. Older stems becoming hairless. Stems often purplish to red. Leaves alternating up the stems, 3–12 cm long, 5–30 mm wide, sometimes spoon-shaped, flat, with curved down margins, surfaces different colours, smooth, sparsely to moderately hairy when young, becoming hairless when mature. Flowers with 4 'petals', cream to green, turning yellowish with age, each 12–14 mm long, more or less fused at the base, hairless to to moderately hairy. flower buds often reddish. Flowers erect, subtended by scale leaves or leaves, clustered or single. Flowers Nov.-Mar. Fruit green to purplish green, 15-18 mm long.
Protected NSW.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Persoonia~silvatica (accessed 31 January, 2021)
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