Pittosporum crassifolium from California-GS25022021-2

[Gurcharan Singh]

Pittosporum crassifolium Banks and Sol.

Shrub or small tree with densely hairy branches; leaves leathery, oblong to obovate, white hairy beneath, margin entire; flowers red to purple in an umbel; fruit up to 3 cm, densely hairy. Very similar to P. tobira in which leaves are  green beneath, flowers white and fruit less than 2 cm in size.

Photographed from San Francisco Zoo, California, 22-11-2012, fruit SFO Botanical Garden 16-7-2008. 

Dr. Gurcharan Singh

Retired  Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.

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