Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pittosporum multiflorum
Common name
Orange thorn
Family
Pittosporaceae
Where found
Forest. Coast, ranges, eastern part of the tablelands, and ACT.
Notes
Shrub to 3 m high. Branches bearing numerous slender spines. Fruit fleshy. Branchlets angular or ridged. Young stems hairy with 2-branched hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see). Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.3–1.2 cm long, 2.5–11 mm wide, glossy on both surfaces, margins toothed in the upper half, rarely entire, tips blunt or pointed. Flowers bisexual but functionally unisexual with male and female flowers on diferent plants. Flowers fragrant, white to greenish yellow, tubular, with 5 'petals', each 4-6 mm long, Flowers single or in small clusters. Flowering: spring–summer. Fruit yellow to orange. Seeds brownish, in a sticky mass.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pittosporum~multiflorum (accessed 1 February, 2021)
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