page_title: Persoonia longifolia
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Persoonia longifolia / Description
caption_attribution_description: Trunk of Persoonia longifolia (Upright Snottygobble), showing the flaky bark. Taken near Barrabup Pool on the Blackwood River near Nannup, Western Australia.
context_page_description: Persoonia longifolia, the upright snottygobble, also known as the long-leaf persoonia or just snottygobble, is a species of tall shrub or small tree in the plant genus Persoonia, reaching 1 to 5 metres in height. It is found in the Jarrah forests of southwest Western Australia. This species is characterised by its long narrow dark green leaves, dark yellow to orange flowers and distinctive flaky dark red bark.
context_section_description: This erect shrub or tree reaches about 5 metres (17 feet) high, usually with few branches. Its dark green leaves are narrow and slightly elliptical, and can grow up to 220 millimetres in length. The distinctive bark is dark red to bronze colour with many papery layers which flake easily. Within the bark are epicormic buds which sprout new growth after bushfire.
  Snottygobbles flower over the summer months, with dark yellow to orange flowers that occur in short sprays.  The individual flowers are 12 to 14mm in length with orange to brown hairs. The flowers split into four narrow segments which curl back to reveal the stamen. The fruit are green initially, but change to a yellow-green colour a few days after falling.
caption: A section of trunk, showing the flaky red bark
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