Common Name: Native Apricot
Botanical Name: Pittosporum angustifolium
Family: PITTOSPORACEAE
Description:
Tall shrub to small tree, 3-6 m high, with pendulous branchlets. Distinctive, smooth, whitish-grey bark, extending to upper limbs. Smooth, narrow, alternate, shiny green, tapering to a hooked tip, 3-10 cm long by 3-10 mm wide, forming a pendulous crown. Small, yellow, scented, tubular flowers, 5 petals, 6-10 mm long. Winter to spring. Bright orange, egg-shaped capsule, to 2 cm long, splitting open when ripe to reveal up to 7 sticky red seeds. Autumn.
Tall shrub to small tree, 3-6 m high, with pendulous branchlets. Distinctive, smooth, whitish-grey bark, extending to upper limbs. Smooth, narrow, alternate, shiny green, tapering to a hooked tip, 3-10 cm long by 3-10 mm wide, forming a pendulous crown. Small, yellow, scented, tubular flowers, 5 petals, 6-10 mm long. Winter to spring. Bright orange, egg-shaped capsule, to 2 cm long, splitting open when ripe to reveal up to 7 sticky red seeds. Autumn.
Natural Distribution:
Scattered throughout lower rainfall regions in all agricultural districts of SA. Extends into WA, Qld, NSW, Vic and Tas. Common to mallee and northern arid areas.
Scattered throughout lower rainfall regions in all agricultural districts of SA. Extends into WA, Qld, NSW, Vic and Tas. Common to mallee and northern arid areas.
Notes:
Previously named Pittosporum phylliraeoides. Often surrounded by juveniles due to suckering from roots.
Previously named Pittosporum phylliraeoides. Often surrounded by juveniles due to suckering from roots.
