[93] Pittosporum Fruit
Ripe fruit yellowish or orange splits open to reveal sticky seeds.
[78] Pittosporum Fruit . Slow drying sticky resin covers the red or orange seeds. At maturity the plants may get 12 feet high with an 18 foot spread. Sooty mold on leaves is a sign of infestation.
It also spreads in dumped garden waste and contaminated soil and seeds stick to footwear. Plain pittosporum facts list. The plants produce fragrant creamy white flowers at the ends of the stems set in clusters.
Chinese pittosporum pittosporum heterophyllum. The fruits are attractive to birds and other animals including posums and foxes. Hardier than japanese.
Fallen fruit can be a nuisance on lawns and paving. Pittosporum plants are moderate to slow growing bushes with whorled leaves of either glossy green or variegated white. Fruit is a capsule or a berry.
Pittosporum apart from its shy flowers has simply beautiful leaves. Susceptible to aphids and scale. Name pittosporum family pittosporaceae type shrub height 6 to 16 feet 2 to 5 meters exposure full sun soil ordinary foliage evergreen flowering march to june.
Excellent for screens windbreaks. The genus is probably gondwanan in origin. The planting pruning and care you provide this shrub will ensure the proper development of your.
In the southern africa pittosporum is the only genus. Pittosporum pitta is greek for pitch or resin and sporum seeds referring to the seed which may have a resinous coating. It is a serious weed problem outside its natural range in sa tasmania victoria and wa.
Its present range extends from australasia oceania eastern asia and some parts of africa.