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Pittosporum undulatum
Also called Mock Orange, Sweet Pittosporum, Victorian Box, Wave Leaved Pittosporum, Cheesewood, Engraver Wood, Orange Berry Pittosporum
Australian cheesewood is a fast-growing evergreen shrub or small tree, up to about 15 m, native to moist eastern Australia. It does best in cool, moist, partly shaded conditions and is often grown as a hedge or screening plant.
Pittosporum undulatum is a fast-growing tree in the family Pittosporaceae. It is sometimes also known as sweet pittosporum, native daphne, Australian cheesewood, Victorian box or mock orange.
Pittosporum undulatum has become invasive in parts of Australia where it is not indigenous. It is also highly invasive in South Africa, the Caribbean, Hawaii, the Azores and southern Brazil.
Originally P. undulatum grew in moist areas on the Australian east coast, where its natural range was from south-east Queensland to eastern Victoria, but has increased its range since European settlement.
Weeping Pittosporum · Stiffleaf cheesewood · Lemonwood · Rusty Pittosporum · Desert Willow · Resin cheesewood · Tawhiwhi · Japanese cheesewood · Cheesewood
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pittosporum undulatum 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.
