Persoonia media R.Br.

Erect to spreading shrubs to trees 0.3-25 m tall. Bark uniformly smooth or smooth on upper branches and finely fissured at base. Hairs tawny to ferruginous, mostly appressed. Young branchlets glabrous to sparsely hairy. Leaves linear-elliptic to broadly elliptic to ovate, 3-14 cm long, 4-35 mm wide, flat, with recurved margins, spreading to suberect, straight, innocuous, concolorous, not glaucous, glabrous to sparsely hairy when immature, glabrescent, smooth. Inflorescence anauxotelic or auxotelic, 1-16-flowered; rachis 0-15 cm long. Flowers subtended by scale leaves and/or leaves; pedicels 3-10 mm long, erect, glabrous to moderately hairy; tepals 10-14 mm long, apiculate to caudate, glabrous to sparsely hairy on outside. Ovary glabrous or occasionally sparsely to moderately hairy; hairs greyish to tawny; ovule 1.

It grows in subtropical and warm temperate locations. It can be on the edges of rainforest. It needs good drainage and an acid soil. It can tolerate some frost.

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