Pittosporum crassifolium, Putterl.
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Pittosporum crassifolium |
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1. P. crassifolium Putterl. View in CoL , Syn. Pittosp. 12 (1839).
An erect, evergreen shrub or small tree up to 10 m, with black bark and a subfastigiate crown. Leaves 5-8 x 2-3 cm, obovate-oblong to oblong, obtuse, dark green above and white-tomentose beneath, very coriaceous. Flowers in few-flowered umbellate cymes.
Petals blackish-purple, oblong. Capsule 20-28 mm, subglobose, white-tomentose, with 3-4 woody valves. Cultivatedfor ornament and shelter in parts of W. Europe; naturalized in the Isles ofScilly. [Br.] (New Zealand.)
P. tobira (Thunb.) Aiton fit, Hort. Kew. ed. 2, 2: 27 (1811), from S. Japan and E. China, with leaves of similar shape but glabrous, and with white or yellowish, fragrant flowers, is cultivated for ornament in parts of S. & W. Europe.
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Pittosporum crassifolium
| Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A. 1964 |
P. crassifolium
| Putterl. 1839: 12 |