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Pittosporum phillyreoides
Also called Willow Pittosporum, Weeping Pittosporum
Desert willow (Pittosporum phillyreoides) is a drought-tolerant Australian shrub or small columnar tree with weeping foliage, grown as an ornamental in gardens. Once established it needs little water, and good drainage is the key to success.
Pittosporum phillyreoides, with the common names weeping pittosporum and willow pittosporum, is a shrub or small columnar tree in the Apiales order, endemic to Australia.
Pittosporum phillyreoides, a name still seen used in the plant nursery trade, is cultivated as an ornamental tree for planting in gardens. It has a somewhat columnar growth with weeping form and foliage texture, and is drought tolerant once established.
The 'original true' Pittosporum phillyreoides named by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle was only native to a narrow coastal strip of northern Western Australia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pittosporum phillyreoides 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.
