Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Persoonia levis

Persoonia levis
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The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/February 24, 2013 by BencherliteTalk 12:00, 12 February 2013 (UTC)



Persoonia levis, commonly known as the broad-leaved geebung, is a shrub native to New South Wales and Victoria in eastern Australia. It reaches 5 m (16 ft) in height and has dark grey papery bark and bright green asymmetrical sickle-shaped leaves up to 14 cm (5.5 in) long and 8 cm (3.2 in) wide. The small yellow flowers appear in summer and autumn (December to April), followed by small green fleshy fruit known as drupes. Found in dry sclerophyll forest on sandstone-based nutrient-deficient soils, P. levis is adapted to a fire-prone environment; the plants resprout epicormic buds from beneath their thick bark after bushfires, and can live for over 60 years. Regeneration also takes place after fire by a ground-stored seed bank. The longtongue bee Leioproctus carinatifrons is a pollinator of the flowers, and the fruit are consumed by vertebrates such as kangaroos, possums and currawongs. Despite its horticultural appeal, P. levis is rare in cultivation as it is very hard to propagate, either by seed or cuttings.


 * Bleh, it's summer, it's in flower and the foliage looks lovely and almost fluorescent green when walking through the aussie bushland. No plant since 25 Jan....Casliber (talk · contribs) 11:53, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Support, high quality article, neat-sounding name. Also, SCIENCE! &mdash; Cirt (talk) 18:56, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Suppoet flowers during our winter and your summer. Truthkeeper (talk) 22:50, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Support peaceful plant, quality article, any time --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:25, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Support, it's nice to have a TFA that isn't about the United States. ;-) Prioryman (talk) 21:56, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Support. Looks like a nice comprehensive article. There are four red links in the Ecology section; it would be nice if these could re-direct to appropriate articles, even if they are just stubs. Does any editor reading this have the necessary expertise? RomanSpa (talk) 12:43, 10 February 2013 (UTC)