Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Hymenosporum flavum
Common name
Native frangipani
Family
Pittosporaceae
Where found
Forest, regrowth, and near streams. Natural occurrences north from the Blue Mountains. Frequently planted and naturalised outside its natural range.
Notes
Shrub or small tree to 22 m high. Occasionally partly deciduous. Bark greyish, smooth, with short horizontal lines of lenticels. Young stems hairy with simple and glandular hairs, becoming hairless, marked by lenticels and scars. Leaves alternating up the stems, sometimes clustered and more or less whorled, 7–16 cm long, 30–45 mm wide, soft, hairless, sometimes hairy on lower surface, especially along the midrib, margins entire, rarely toothed or lobed in juvenile plants, tips gradually tapering to a point and often with a small abrupt point. Flowers fragrant, at first creamy white, turning yellow with a deep pink or reddish throat with age, tubular, the tube 20-30 mm long, with 5 petals each 20–40 mm long. Flowers in loosely branched clusters 15-20 cm diameter. Flowering: spring. Seeds reddish brown, with a single wing all round.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Hymenosporum~flavum (accessed 19 January, 2021)
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