Persoonia juniperina Labill.

Erect to decumbent shrubs 0.3–2 m tall. Bark smooth. Hairs greyish, appressed to antrorsely spreading. Young branchlets sparsely to densely hairy. Leaves spreading to suberect, straight, linear, 8–35 mm long, 0.7–1.5 mm wide, concave, occasionally incurved, usually pungent, concolorous, not glaucous, glabrous to densely hairy when immature, glabrescent, smooth. Inflorescence auxotelic, 1–40-flowered; rachis 0–15 cm long. Flowers mostly subtended by leaves; pedicels 0.8–3 mm long, erect to spreading, moderately to densely hairy; tepals 6–11 mm long, apiculate to caudate, sparsely to moderately hairy on outside. Ovary glabrous; ovules 2.

It is a temperate plant. It grows in black peppermint forests. They need acid soils. They can grow in moderately well drained soils and can tolerate soils wet in winter. It can grow in sun or light shade. Hobart Botanical Gardens. Tasmania Herbarium.

The fruit are eaten raw or cooked.

Plants can be grown from seed or cuttings. It can be pruned and used as a hedge.