Family: Pittosporaceae
Plant: A shrub or small tree up to 10m high.
Flowers: Sweetly fragrant creamy-white bell-shaped or tubular with 5 recurved lobes and 5 stamens. The flowers are borne in small terminal clusters.
Flowering: August-September.
Fruits: Dark yellow to pale orange-brown, globose capsule up to 1.5cm diameter.
Leaves: Elliptic to oblanceolate 6-15cm long and 1.5-4cm wide, with wavy margins, lacking hairs, dark green and glossy but with brown blisters on the surface. The leaves are alternately arranged but appearing whorled at ends of branches
Habitat: Mainly in rainforest and rainforest margins but may be found in also any shady, moist location.
Features: Mature leaves without hairs. Leaves have wavy margins. Heavily perfumed creamy-white bell-shaped flowers.
Name:
Pittosporum From Greek = resin-seed (referring to the sticky coating on its seeds).
undulatum From Latin undulatus = wavy (referring to its wavy leaf margins).
Type |
Tree, Shrub |
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Flowers |
Form |
Tubular/Bell-shaped, Cluster |
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Colour(s) |
Cream, White |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
5 |
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Flowering Month |
8, 9 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Capsule |
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Colour |
Orange, Brown, Yellow |
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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 |
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Length |
Medium |
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Margins |
Entire, Wavy |
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Attachment |
Stalked |
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Other Features |
- |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Rainforest |
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