Pittosporum Ligustrifolium

Kostenlos A monograph of the re circumscribed genus. 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. Single trunked erect shrub to small tree to 3 m high often with a distinctive weeping habit in some forms.

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Botany Word Of The Day Capsule A Dry Dehiscent Fruit

Glome A Very Dense Cluster Botany Word Of The Day

Septicidal Dividing Along A Septum Botany Word Of The Day

Dioecious Having Male And Female Organs On Different Plants

Botany Word Of The Day Capsule A Dry Dehiscent Fruit

Pittosporum ligustrifolium rottnest april 2010 compared to the same time last year the fruit of pittosporum ligustrifolium were in a more advanced stage.

Pittosporum ligustrifolium. White yellow cream mar or jul to sep or dec. They had ripened and started to spit open to reveal their large seeds. Small tree up to 17 m tall. However usually not displaying this habit along the perth coastline. Perhaps this was due to a dryer summer. Grey soils clayey sand calcrete sandstone granite laterite limestone. Erect spreading shrub or tree small 0 2 4 5 m high.

The hanging low branches and thin leaves gives a graceful and willow like effect. Leaves alternate narrow oblong to narrowly oblanceolate or elliptic oblong 25 125 x 2 20 mm glabrescent. Like other coastal trees such as moonah it bears its foliage in a dense rounded mass. The pictures were all taken on rottnest. Once know as pittosporum phylliraeoides along with pittosporum ligustrifolium pittosporum angustifolium is now considered a seperate unique species. 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. Riverbanks coastal areas ridges wet depressions.

Is an accepted name this name is the accepted name of a species in the genus pittosporum family pittosporaceae. Bark grey flaky or deeply fissured. Coast pittosporum pittosporum ligustrifolium coast pittosporum stands out with its bright green foliage. At species level in pittosporum p. Flowers solitary or in clusters of 2 3 up to 1 cm across. It is now scarce on the perth mainland but is doing well on rottnest and garden islands. Leaves 20 85 mm long 6 16 mm wide occasionally hairy on the undersurface.

Trilobum is described for the first time. Native apricot weeping pittosporum native willow poisonberry tree apricot tree berigan butter bush meemeei. The record derives from tropicos data supplied on 2012 04 18 which reports it as an accepted name record 25100154 with original publication details.