Pittosporum eugenioides
A.Cunn.Densely branched shrub or tree to 12 m high. Leaves aromatic, alternate or clustered at branch-tips, lanceolate to oblanceolate or elliptic, (5–)8–12(–15) cm long, 2.5–4 cm wide, glossy, glabrous, margins usually undulate. Flowers sweetly-scented, unisexual or occasionally bisexual, in terminal panicles; pedicles 4–6 mm long; sepals free, ovate to narrowly ovate, c. 2 mm long; petals narrowly oblong, 5–7 mm long, yellowish, free, spreading from base. Capsule globose to ovoid, 5–6 mm long, dark brown, glabrous, inner face smooth, yellowish; seeds few, 2.5–3.5 mm long, dark reddish-brown to blackish. Flowers Oct. (1 record).
VVP, GipP, OtP, WaP, CVU, HSF, HNF, Strz. Also SA, NSW, Tas. Native to New Zealand, commonly cultivated (particularly variegated forms) as a hedge or specimen shrub, occasionally escaping cultivation, recorded with other weedy species in wet forest mainly south of the Dividing Range (e.g. Dandenong Ranges, Gembrook, Noojee, Walhalla etc.).
This species superficially resembles the native P. undulatum in habit and aroma, differing in the larger, more complex inflorescence and smaller capsules.
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