Common Name: PITTOSPORUM FAMILY Habit: Tree, shrub, woody vine, generally evergreen. Leaf: simple, alternate, occasionally +- at branch tips, often leathery, generally entire, petioled. Inflorescence: panicle, cluster, or flowers 1. Flower: generally bisexual, radial; sepals 5, free or +- fused at base; petals 5, free, erect or spreading, base generally +- adherent into tube; stamens 5; ovary superior, chambers generally 2--3, style 1, stigma generally spheric. Fruit: capsule, berry. Seed: several, often in pulp. Genera In Family: 9 genera, +- 200 species: warm temperate, tropics, Old World, especially Australia, New Zealand, eastern Asia; some ornamental, especially Pittosporum. Note:Sollya moved to Billardiera. eFlora Treatment Author: Alan T. Whittemore & Elizabeth McClintock Scientific Editor: Douglas H. Goldman, Bruce G. Baldwin.
Habit: Tree, shrub. Leaf: tip acute or rounded. Inflorescence: panicle, umbel-like cluster, or flowers 1, terminal or axillary. Flower: generally functionally unisexual; petals generally adherent proximally, spreading distally; anthers free; ovary chambers 2--3. Fruit: capsule, woody, 2--3 valved; pulp resinous. Seed: sticky. Etymology: (Greek: pitch, seed, from resinous seed coating) Note: Some species medicinal and poisonous; saponins in Pittosporum crassifolium.
Pittosporum crassifolium Banks & Sol.
NATURALIZED Habit: Shrub, small tree. Stem: < 9 m; twigs densely hairy. Leaf: generally 4.5--7 cm, oblong to obovate, leathery, margin generally +- turned under; abaxially white, densely hairy; petiole 8--16 mm. Inflorescence: umbel, terminal. Flower: not fragrant; petals +- 1 cm, dark red to purple-black. Fruit: 1.5--3 cm, spheric or ovoid, dense-hairy, generally 3-valved. Seed: purple-black. Ecology: Uncommon. Disturbed areas; Elevation: < 200 m. Bioregional Distribution: CCo; Distribution Outside California: native to New Zealand. Flowering Time: Nov--May Jepson eFlora Author: Alan T. Whittemore & Elizabeth McClintock Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Pittosporum Next taxon: Pittosporum tenuifolium
Citation for this treatment: Alan T. Whittemore & Elizabeth McClintock 2012, Pittosporum crassifolium, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=38444, accessed on December 10, 2023.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2023, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on December 10, 2023.
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