Pittosporum glabratum
Credits
Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Pittosporum glabratum' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Other taxa in genus
- Pittosporum adaphniphylloides
- Pittosporum bicolor
- Pittosporum brevicalyx
- Pittosporum buchananii
- Pittosporum colensoi
- Pittosporum cornifolium
- Pittosporum crassifolium
- Pittosporum dallii
- Pittosporum daphniphylloides
- Pittosporum divaricatum
- Pittosporum eugenioides
- Pittosporum huttonianum
- Pittosporum patulum
- Pittosporum phillyreoides
- Pittosporum revolutum
- Pittosporum rigidum
- Pittosporum tenuifolium
- Pittosporum tobira
- Pittosporum undulatum
An evergreen shrub 4 to 6 ft high, with quite glabrous young shoots, bearing the leaves in a cluster at the end. Leaves obovate to oblanceolate, tapered at both ends, but more gradually towards the base, 3 to 5 in. long, 3⁄4 to 11⁄2 in. wide, with entire, membranous margins, quite glabrous on both surfaces, dark green above, pale beneath; stalk 1⁄2 in. or less long. Flowers fragrant, dull yellow, produced singly or in few-flowered racemes in the leaf-axils of the young shoots in May; corolla 1⁄3 to 1⁄2 in. long, cylindrical at the base, dividing at the mouth in five oblong, recurved lobes, 1⁄6 in. long; flower-stalks usually 1⁄2 to 3⁄4 in. long, glabrous. Fruit a glabrous, woody capsule, 5⁄8 in. long.
Native of the warmer parts of China; introduced by Fortune from Hong Kong in 1845, and reintroduced by Wilson from near Ichang in 1908. It has never become established in cultivation.