Persoonia levis (Cav.) Domin

Erect to spreading shrubs or trees 1-5 m tall. Bark lamellose-flaky. Hairs greyish, appressed to antrorse. Young branchlets glabrous to moderately hairy. Leaves oblanceolate to narrowly oblong to obovate to narrowly elliptic to spathulate, 6-14 cm long, 1.3-8 cm wide, flat, spreading to suberect, falcate, twisted at base through 90°, innocuous, concolorous, not glaucous, glabrous to sparsely hairy when immature, glabrescent, smooth. Inflorescence usually auxotelic, 4-34-flowered; rachis 0.8-15 cm long. Flowers mostly subtended by scale leaves; pedicels 3-8 mm long, erect to spreading, sparsely to moderately hairy; tepals 10-14 mm long, apiculate, glabrous to sparsely hairy on outside. Ovary glabrous; ovules 2.

It is a warm temperate plant. It grows near the coast and in hills nearby. It need freely draining acid soil. It can grow in sun or light shade. It can tolerate frost and dry periods.

The fruit are not fully ripe until they fall from the tree and become soft and change from green to black. They are eaten. The seeds can be roasted and cracked open and the seed kernel eaten.

Plants can be grown from seed or cuttings of very young growth.