Persoonia mollis R.Br.

Erect to prostrate shrubs 0.2-5 m tall. Bark smooth. Hairs greyish to ferruginous, appressed to patent. Young branchlets moderately to densely hairy. Leaves linear to oblong to elliptic to lanceolate to spathulate or narrowly so, 1.5-12 cm long, 0.8-17 mm wide, flat or convex, with recurved to revolute margins, sometimes incurved, spreading to suberect, straight, innocuous, strongly discolorous, sometimes glaucous, sparsely to moderately hairy when immature, glabrescent to sparsely hairy when mature, smooth to scaberulous. Inflorescence usually auxotelic, 1-30-flowered; rachis 0-15 cm long. Flowers mostly subtended by leaves; pedicels 1-3 mm long, erect, moderately to densely hairy; tepals 8-11.5 mm long, obtuse to caudate, moderately to densely hairy on outside. Ovary glabrous; ovules 2.

It grows in warm temperate locations. It grows on sandy soils and can be in wet or dry forests. It needs good drainage and an acid soil. It does best with light shade. It can stand heavy frosts. It suits hardiness zones 9-11.

The ripe fruit are eaten is eaten but the skin is removed. The fruit falls off and is black when it is ripe.

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