Pine-leaved Geebung

Where   : Turramurra
When    : Thursday, 18th October, 10-30am
Weapon : Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ3

Took another walk this morning into Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, and took more shots of some native plants. 

I am not very good at the names, but my wife is pretty hot on knowing the general species/genus - and then we have a neighbour who has been studying weed management and native spcies at TAFE and she is excellent, so identifying what I shoot is not a problem.

This, so I am told, is Persoonia Pinifolia, generally known as a "geebung", an interesting Australian native shrub indeed ...

There are 60-70 species in this family of the Proteacea, all occur only in Australia - except one species in New Zealand.

This shrub in the photograph is almost 3 metres high, the leaves long and "pine-like", the small yellow flowers borne in the leaf axils at the ends of the branches. Fleshy, green fruits which hang in grape-like and grape-sized clusters rather than bunches, as shown above follow the flowers and never fail to attract attention.

Persoonia are very difficult to propagate from both seed and cuttings, so we generally just have to enjoy them in their native habitat. I am indeed fortunate to live right on the doorstep to one of Australia's finest National Parks.