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Pittosporum lancifolium

Pittosporum lancifolium
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Pittosporaceae (Pittospor family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Native range
Queensland to NE. New South Wales
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Pittosporum lancifolium, commonly known as narrow-leaved orange thorn or sticky orange thorn, is a species of flowering plant in the family Pittosporaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect shrub or small tree with narrowly egg-shaped to elliptic or broadly lance-shaped leaves, sessile flowers arranged singly or in pairs in leaf axils and spherical capsules.

Where it grows

Pittosporum lancifolium grows in open areas in or near dry rainforest or in hoop pine scrub between Yarraman in south-east Queensland and Mallanganee National Park near Lismore in northern New South Wales, usually at altitudes more than about 500 m (1,600 ft).

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 lancifolium by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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