Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pittosporum revolutum
Common name
Wild Yellow Jasmine, Rough fruit Pittosporum, Hairy Pittosporum
Family
Pittosporaceae
Where found
Forest and stream banks. Coast and ranges.
Notes
Tree or shrub to 4 m high. Young branches rusty or greyish hairy with 2-branched hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see), slightly sticky, sometimes becoming hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems or in pseudo-whorls at the ends of the branches, 4–15 cm long, 15–60 mm wide, upper surface dull and becoming hairless, lower surface paler, densely to sparsely hairy, margins entire, rarely wavy, tips pointed. Flowers bisexual but functionally unisexual with male and female flowers on diferent plants. Flowers cream to yellow, fragrant, tubular, with 5 'petals', each 9–20 mm long, curved back. Flowers in few to many-flowered clusters at the tops of the stems. Seed cases yellow to orange, sometimes becoming dark brown, hard, usually warty, usually hairy, opening by 2-3 valves. Seeds orange to red or red-brown, sticking together in a mass.
Rare Vic.
Possibly occasionally hybridises with Pittosporum undulatum.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pittosporum~revolutum (accessed 1 February, 2021)
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