Pittosporum Ligustrifolium

Grey soils clayey sand calcrete sandstone granite laterite limestone.

Pittosporum ligustrifolium. 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. Native apricot weeping pittosporum native willow poisonberry tree apricot tree berigan butter bush meemeei. Coast pittosporum pittosporum ligustrifolium coast pittosporum stands out with its bright green foliage.

At species level in pittosporum p. White yellow cream mar or jul to sep or dec. A monograph of the re circumscribed genus. Erect spreading shrub or tree small 0 2 4 5 m high.

Pittosporum ligustrifolium rottnest april 2010 compared to the same time last year the fruit of pittosporum ligustrifolium were in a more advanced stage. The hanging low branches and thin leaves gives a graceful and willow like effect. Once know as pittosporum phylliraeoides along with pittosporum ligustrifolium pittosporum angustifolium is now considered a seperate unique species. The pictures were all taken on rottnest.

Trilobum is described for the first time. It is now scarce on the perth mainland but is doing well on rottnest and garden islands. They had ripened and started to spit open to reveal their large seeds. Leaves 20 85 mm long 6 16 mm wide occasionally hairy on the undersurface.

Like other coastal trees such as moonah it bears its foliage in a dense rounded mass. Leaves alternate narrow oblong to narrowly oblanceolate or elliptic oblong 25 125 x 2 20 mm glabrescent. 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. 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.

Perhaps this was due to a dryer summer. Riverbanks coastal areas ridges wet depressions. However usually not displaying this habit along the perth coastline. Small tree up to 17 m tall.