Pittosporum tobira seed tree

LATIN NAME: Pittosporum tobira

COMMON NAME: Japanese Pittosporum

The pittosporum rounds its glossy, dark-green foliage into the dense, neat shrubs, and the small, creamy-white, sweetly scented flowers open among the leaves. The dense, rounded, evergreen shrub carries the oval, glossy, dark-green leaves with the rolled margins and the small, creamy-white, sweetly scented flowers in the tight clusters through the late spring, one of the fine, steady sights of the warm garden, drawing the bees, to be followed by the small, orange-brown, sticky fruits. The plant is a fine, historic presence of the warm garden, and it is a plant of the open, sunny to lightly shaded, deep, well-drained ground.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The pittosporum is a historic subject of the plant science, and the glossy leaves keep showing up in the work on the evergreen shrubs. The way the dense, rounded habit and the oval, glossy, dark-green leaves with the rolled margins form the fine, solid screens has been studied at length, and it keeps appearing in the studies of the evergreen shrubs, the hedging plants and the members of the pittosporum family. The small, creamy-white flowers and the rounded habit have also made it a fine study shrub, and the pittosporum is a regular subject of the work on the glossy leaves of the warm world.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

The pittosporum is a fine, steady shrub of the warm garden and the hedge. The dense, rounded habit and the oval, glossy, dark-green leaves with the rolled margins form the fine, solid screens, holding their colour through the year, while the small, creamy-white, sweetly scented flowers open through the late spring, drawing the bees. It is one of the fine choices for the hedge, the coastal garden and the study collection, and it has been written up in the horticultural and the botanical papers for the glossy leaves and the steady ways. It is a fine, steady shrub of the open, sunny to lightly shaded, deep, well-drained garden.

Give the young shrubs the light shade and the deep soil, and the glossy mounds will round out over the years.

To grow the pittosporum from seed, sow the small, brown seeds a centimetre down in the pot of fine, sandy soil, keep the pot in a bright, open spot and water gently, then set the young shrubs out in the open ground. The seedlings thread up within a few weeks and grow on steadily. With the sun or the light shade and the deep, well-drained ground, the glossy mounds will round out over the years.

It is a beautiful tender shrub that is popular as a houseplant in cold areas, it is widely used in the floral industry for its long lasting cut foliage, and it is a nice landscape plant in warmer areas. This great shrub gets great evergreen foliage.