Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pittosporum angustifolium
Common name
Weeping Pittosporum, Butterbush
Family
Pittosporaceae
Where found
Woodland and mallee communities. Western Slopes. Planted in Canberra.
Notes
Tree or shrub to about 10 m tall. Fruit at first fleshy but woody when ripe. Branches usually weeping. Bark grey, smooth, with horizontal ridges from lenticels. Stems hairless, with prominent lenticels. Leaves alternating down the stems, 4–12 cm long, 2–12 mm wide, young leaves hairy, becoming hairless, margins occasionally slightly curved down, tips with a hooked point. Flowers appearing bisexual, but functionally with male and female flowers on different plants. Flowers fragrant, particularly at night, yellow to cream, 6–12 mm long, tubular in the lower half, with five spreading lobes about 10 mm long. Male flowers in clusters of up to about 6 flowers, female flowers single or paired. Woody fruit yellowish, 8-18 mm long, opening by 2 valves. Seeds dark red or orange-red to red-brown, sticking together in a mass.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pittosporum~angustifolium (accessed 1 February, 2021)
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