Family: Pittosporaceae
Plant: A stiff, wiry shrub up to 1.5m high with thorny branches.
Flower: White, tiny, bell-shaped with 5 petals and 5 stamens and borne solitary in the leaf axils.
Flowering: September-December.
Fruit: Berry, orange, globular, 4-8mm diameter.
Leaves: Ovate to circular, flat, 8-12mm long and 3-8mm wide, toothed towards the tip and glossy both above and below.
Habitat: In or near rainforest and in wet sclerophyll forest.
Features: Orange berries. Thorny branches. Rounded glossy leaves with toothed apex.
Name:
Pittosporum From Greek = resin-seed (referring to the sticky coating on its seeds).
rmultiflorum From Latin multus = many and florus = flower (referring its masses of flowers).
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Shrub |
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Flowers |
Form |
Tubular/Bell-shaped, Single |
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Colour(s) |
White |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
5 |
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Flowering Month |
9, 10, 11, 12 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Berry |
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Colour |
Orange |
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Other Features |
- |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Alternate, Whorled |
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Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
Oval, Round |
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Length |
Short |
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Margins |
Toothed |
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Attachment |
Unstalked |
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Other Features |
- |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Rainforest, Wet sclerophyll forest |
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