Pittosporum eugenioides A.Cunn.

Species

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Characteristics

Densely branched shrub or tree to 6 m or more high (mature plants may reach 13 m), sometimes dioecious?. Leaves alternate or clustered to ± whorled at branch-tips, aromatic (lemon-scented when crushed); lamina lanceolate to oblanceolate or elliptic, (50–) 80–120 (–150) mm long, 25–40 mm wide, coriaceous, glossy, glabrous, margin entire, usually undulate; petiole 10–20 mm long. Flowers unisexual or occasionally bisexual, in terminal subcorymbose compound umbels (30–70-flowered), sweetly-scented; peduncles 10–20 mm long; pedicels 4–6 mm long. Sepals free, ovate to narrowly ovate, c. 2 mm long. Petals narrowly oblong, 5–7 mm long, 1–2 mm wide, free, spreading from base, cream to yellowish. Ovary pubescent. Capsule globose to ovoid, 5–7 mm long (to 10 mm in New Zealand? – Cooper 1956), 5–6 mm diam., 2-valved (rarely 3-valved), dark brown to black at maturity, glabrous, inner face smooth, yellowish; seeds few, 2.5–3.5 mm long, dark reddish brown to blackish, immersed in a viscid pulp, covered by papery endocarp at dehiscence.
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Polygamodioec. tree with spreading branches, up to 12 m. tall, trunk up to 6 dm. diam., bark pale. Lvs alt., often approximate, 5-10-(15) × 2.5-4 cm., on rather slender petioles 1-2 cm. long. Lamina subcoriac., glossy, scented, elliptic to elliptic-oblong, acute to subacute, narrowed to petiole; margins us. undulate, midrib pale. Fls fragrant, in terminal compound umbels, subcorymbosely arranged. Peduncles and pedicels with scattered hairs; peduncles 1-2 cm. long, pedicels c. 5 mm. long. Sepals ovate to narrow-ovate, pale, membr., c. 2 mm. long; petals narrow-oblong, yellowish, 5-7 mm. long. Capsules glab., finely granulate, ovoid to elliptic in outline, 5-6 mm. long; valves 2 or sts 3; seeds immersed in viscid pulp, remaining ± covered by papery endocarp at dehiscence.
A tree. It grows 12 m tall. It has a strong lemon smell. The fruit are black seed capsules.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 2.5 - 4.0
Mature height (meter) 10.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) 0.4
Flower color
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

In Victoria, sparingly naturalised in wet forest. In New South Wales, recorded as marginally naturalised in disturbed weedy dry sclerophyll forest. In Tasmania, apparently mainly in disturbance and transition zones such as roadsides, along watercourses, and forest margins.
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It is a temperate plant. In New Zealand it grows on the edges of the forest. It grows near streams and up to 600 m above sea level. Arboretum Tasmania.
Widespread in lowland and montane forests, .
Light 5-8
Soil humidity 2-7
Soil texture 3-6
Soil acidity 3-8
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-10

Usage

Commonly cultivated (particularly in its variegated forms) as a hedge or specimen shrub.
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The resin is chewed.
Uses environmental use essential oil material medicinal oil
Edible barks saps
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Plants can be grown from seeds. It can also be grown by cuttings of half ripe wood.
Mode cuttings seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -5
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

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Distribution

Pittosporum eugenioides world distribution map, present in Australia, Brazil, and New Zealand

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:684457-1
WFO ID wfo-0001094762
COL ID 4JC6B
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Pittosporum enkianthoides Pittosporum elegans Pittosporum eugenioides Pittosporum microcarpum