Pittosporum revolutum
Credits
Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Pittosporum revolutum' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Synonyms
- P. fulvum Rudge
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 glabratum
- Pittosporum huttonianum
- Pittosporum patulum
- Pittosporum phillyreoides
- Pittosporum rigidum
- Pittosporum tenuifolium
- Pittosporum tobira
- Pittosporum undulatum
An evergreen shrub up to 10 or 12 ft high, the young shoots felted with pale brown wool. Leaves lanceolate or narrowly ovate, much tapered at both ends, 11⁄2 to 41⁄2 in. long, 1⁄3 to 11⁄4 in. wide, glabrous above, covered beneath with brown wool, especially on the midrib; stalk 1⁄4 to 1⁄2 in. long, woolly. Flowers 1⁄3 to 1⁄2 in. long, produced in spring on a terminal, few-flowered umbel, sometimes solitary. Petals yellow, recurved; sepals awl-shaped, 1⁄4 in. long; flower-stalks woolly.
Native of New South Wales; introduced according to Aiton in 1795. It is rather distinct on account of the dense covering of brown wool on the young shoots and leaves. It is not hardy near London and is adapted only for the southwestern counties and places with a similar climate.