Persoonia linearis Andrews

Erect to decumbent shrubs or trees 1-5 m tall. Bark lamellose-flaky. Hairs greyish, appressed to patent or curly. Young branchlets moderately to densely hairy. Leaves linear to narrowly oblong to linear-elliptic to linear-spathulate, 2-9 cm long, 1-7 mm wide, flat or convex (often with slightly recurved margins), spreading to suberect, straight, not twisted, innocuous, concolorous to slightly discolorous, not glaucous, sparsely to moderately hairy when immature, glabrescent, smooth. Inflorescence auxotelic, 1-50-flowered; rachis 0-17 cm long. Flowers subtended by scale leaves and leaves; pedicels 2-8 mm long, erect or spreading, moderately to densely hairy; tepals 9-14 mm long, apiculate to caudate, sparsely to densely hairy on outside. Ovary glabrous; ovules 2.

Heaths and woodlands on sandy and stony soils. Grows in sclerophyll forest and woodland in well-drained soils derived from a wide variety of substrata, from sea level to 1300 metres.

The fruit become soft and edible after they fall from the tree and change from green to black. Often it is better to remove the skin. Roasted seeds can be cracked and the kernels eaten.

Plants can be grown from seed or cuttings of very young growth. Trees cross pollinate and hybrid trees are common.