About Persoonia juniperina Labill.
Persoonia juniperina Labill. is an erect to low-lying shrub that usually grows 0.3 to 2 metres (1 foot 0 inch to 6 feet 7 inches) tall. It has smooth bark and hairy young branchlets. Its leaves are linear, measuring 8 to 35 millimetres (0.31 to 1.38 inches) long and 0.7 to 1.5 millimetres (0.028 to 0.059 inches) wide. Flowers grow singly or in groups of up to forty on a rachis that reaches up to 150 millimetres (5.9 inches) long; after flowering, the rachis grows into a leafy shoot. Each flower sits on a hairy pedicel 0.8 to 3 millimetres (0.031 to 0.118 inches) long. The tepals are yellow, sometimes hairy on the outer surface, and 7 to 11 millimetres (0.28 to 0.43 inches) long, with yellow anthers. Flowering takes place from December to February, and the fruit is an oval yellowish green to purplish drupe around 10 millimetres (0.39 inches) long and 8 millimetres (0.31 inches) wide. This species occurs across Tasmania, and from Green Cape on the far south coast of New South Wales, south through Victoria, and into southeastern South Australia as far west as Adelaide. It grows in sclerophyll forest and heath, at altitudes up to 700 metres (2,300 feet). A field study that manipulated pollination found P. juniperina is partly self-compatible, but cross-pollination produces more fruit.
