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Pittosporum eriocarpum

Pittosporum eriocarpum
Photo: Raffi Kojian, CC BY-SA 3.0

Pittosporum eriocarpum is a tree from the western Himalaya and northwest India, growing in subtropical hill forests. It needs mild, frost-free conditions and well-drained soil, and it is grown mainly as a specimen or garden tree.

Family
Pittosporaceae (Pittospor family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade, Full sun
Water
Water regularly while young, then allow the top few centimetres of soil to dry between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained loam or humus-rich soil
Temperature
10–30 °C; protect from frost
How easy
Moderate
Native range
WC. Himalaya to NW. India (Morni Hills)
Climate
subtropical

About

Pittosporum eriocarpum is a plant species of the Indian subcontinent in the Pittosporaceae family, native to Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. This taxon is threatened by habitat loss.

Other Pittosporum plants

Pittosporum aliferum · Weeping Pittosporum · Pittosporum artense · Banyalla · Pittosporum brevispinum · Pittosporum ceylanicum · Pittosporum coccineum · Pittosporum collinum · Madeira Pittosporum · Perching Kohukohu · Stiffleaf cheesewood · Dalls Pittosporum

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pittosporum eriocarpum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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