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Pittosporum tobira
Cheesewood, Pittosporum
Origin: Australia and Eastern Asia.
| Family |
| Pittosporaceae |
| Genus |
| Pittosporum |
| Species |
| tobira |
| Category |
| Tropicals |
| Type |
| Shrub (evergreen) |
| USDA Hardiness Zone |
| 8b - 10 |
| Canadian Hardiness Zone |
| Requires cold season protection under glass. |
| RHS Hardiness Zone |
| H2 - H4 |
| Temperature (°C) |
| -10 - 5 |
| Temperature (°F) |
| 14 - 41 |
| Height |
| 2 - 30 m |
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Description and Growing Information
Flowering Period
| Landscape |
| Widely used as an ornamental plant and sometimes grown indoors as bonsai. |
| Growth |
| Medium |
| Pests |
| Cottony cushion scale and sac fungus. |
| Leaf Description |
| The leaves are spirally arranged or whorled, simple, with an entire or waved margin. |
| Flower Description |
| The often sweetly scented flowers are produced singly or in umbels or corymbs, each flower with five sepals and five petals. |
| Fruit Description |
| The fruit is a woody seed capsule, which bursts on ripening to release the numerous seeds. The seeds are coated with a sticky resinous substance. |
| Colour Description |
| Leaves are green. Flowers are white. |
| Texture Description |
| Leaves are glossy. Bark is smooth. |
| Notable Specimens |
| Centennial Conservatory, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. |
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