Pittosporum bicolor

Erect, rather dense shrub or tree to 18 m high; branchlets densely tomentose. Leaves oblong, narrow-elliptic or lanceolate, mostly 2–9 cm long, 4–18 mm wide, upper surface green and finally glabrous, lower surface with persistent greyish indumentum; margins usually recurved. Flowers bisexual, solitary in axils; pedicels decurved, 4–25 mm long; sepals free, lanceolate to ovate, 2–8 mm long, finally reflexed, usually maroon-tinged; petals oblong to oblanceolate, 8–13 mm long, yellow internally, with purple-maroon veins and/or markings externally, recurved at apex. Capsule subglobose, c. 7–10 mm diam., yellowish, turning grey-black when ripe, pubescent, inner face dark and wrinkled; seeds numerous, 2.5–3.5 mm long, red. Flowers mainly Aug.–Dec.