Pittosporum undulatum

Sweet Pittosporum or Mock Orange

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).   

Search Criteria

 

Type

Tree, Shrub

Flowers

Form

Tubular/Bell-shaped, Cluster

 

Colour(s)

Cream, White

 

Petal/Sepal No.

5

 

Flowering Month

8, 9

Fruit

Type       

Capsule

 

Colour

Orange, Brown, Yellow

 

Other Features

-

Leaves

Arrangement

Alternate, Whorled

 

Type       

Simple

 

Shape

Oval

 

Length    

Medium

 

Margins  

Entire, Wavy

 

Attachment

Stalked

 

Other Features

-

Bark

-

Habitat

Rainforest