Pittosporum crassifolium
Credits
Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Pittosporum crassifolium' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Infraspecifics
Other taxa in genus
- Pittosporum adaphniphylloides
- Pittosporum bicolor
- Pittosporum brevicalyx
- Pittosporum buchananii
- Pittosporum colensoi
- Pittosporum cornifolium
- Pittosporum dallii
- Pittosporum daphniphylloides
- Pittosporum divaricatum
- Pittosporum eugenioides
- Pittosporum glabratum
- Pittosporum huttonianum
- Pittosporum patulum
- Pittosporum phillyreoides
- Pittosporum revolutum
- Pittosporum rigidum
- Pittosporum tenuifolium
- Pittosporum tobira
- Pittosporum undulatum
An evergreen shrub or small tree 15 ft or more high, of dense habit. Leaves 11⁄2 to 4 in. long, obovate to oblong, always narrowed at the base to a stalk 1⁄2 to 1 in. long, leathery, covered beneath with a pale brown or whitish felt, the margins revolute. Flowers unisexual in terminal clusters; males up to ten in each cluster, females up to five; petals strap-shaped, recurved, dark purple. Fruit roundish, dry, 2⁄3 in. across, containing numerous black seeds. Bot. Mag., t. 5978.
Native of the North Island of New Zealand; not hardy at Kew except on a wall, where it makes an interesting evergreen, but does not flower freely.
From the Supplement (Vol. V)
Both this species and P. ralphii, mentioned under it, have given rise to variegated cultivars in which the margin of the leaf is cream-coloured.
