(Kostenlos) Pittosporum Ligustrifolium

Single trunked erect shrub to small tree to 3 m high often with a distinctive weeping habit in some forms.

Pittosporum ligustrifolium. Riverbanks coastal areas ridges wet depressions. Pittosporum ligustrifolium rottnest april 2010 compared to the same time last year the fruit of pittosporum ligustrifolium were in a more advanced stage. Trilobum is described for the first time. The hanging low branches and thin leaves gives a graceful and willow like effect. Coastal plants this page shows 87 of the more common and conspicuous local species as described and illustrated in professor kingsley dixon s book coastal plants a guide to the identification and restoration of plants of the perth region published by csiro publishing and copyright to cambridge coastcare inc in 2010. Perhaps this was due to a dryer summer. Native apricot weeping pittosporum native willow poisonberry tree apricot tree berigan butter bush meemeei.

Leaves alternate narrow oblong to narrowly oblanceolate or elliptic oblong 25 125 x 2 20 mm glabrescent. Bark grey flaky or deeply fissured. However usually not displaying this habit along the perth coastline. Erect spreading shrub or tree small 0 2 4 5 m high. Coast pittosporum pittosporum ligustrifolium coast pittosporum stands out with its bright green foliage. A monograph of the re circumscribed genus. Grey soils clayey sand calcrete sandstone granite laterite limestone.

Once know as pittosporum phylliraeoides along with pittosporum ligustrifolium pittosporum angustifolium is now considered a seperate unique species. They had ripened and started to spit open to reveal their large seeds. White yellow cream mar or jul to sep or dec. The record derives from tropicos data supplied on 2012 04 18 which reports it as an accepted name record 25100154 with original publication details. The pictures were all taken on rottnest. It is now scarce on the perth mainland but is doing well on rottnest and garden islands. Pittosporum angustifolium is a widespread plant found across most of inland australia in mallee communities alluvial flats ridges as well as dry woodland and on loamy clay or sandy soils however it is never common.

Like other coastal trees such as moonah it bears its foliage in a dense rounded mass. Flowers solitary or in clusters of 2 3 up to 1 cm across. Small tree up to 17 m tall.