Pittosporum Tenuifolium

Genus pittosporum are evergreen shrubs or trees with simple leathery leaves and small often fragrant 5 petalled flowers followed by spherical woody fruits splitting to reveal seeds embedded in sticky pulp details p.

Pittosporum tenuifolium. Grow in moist but well drained soil in full sun. During late spring and early summer small bell shaped purple flowers are produced in clusters followed by spherical brown seed capsules. Tenuifolium is a large broadly columnar evergreen shrub with slender dark shoots. Small fragrant black flowers in early summer. Pittosporum tenuifolium silver queen is an attractive pittosporum bearing attractive white markings on the edge of its leaves. Its small very dark reddish purple flowers generally go unnoticed and are scented only at night. Pittosporum tenuifolium is a small evergreen tree up to 10 m 33 ft commonly known as kōhūhū and black matipo and by other māori names kohukohu and tawhiwhi.

The latin tenuifolium means slender leaved 1 description. Excellent foliage for flower arrangements. It has glossy medium green oval slightly undulating leaves that are held on dark nearly black new stems and dark fragrant purple flowers held in small clusters in the spring that are followed by small orange fruit. They provide a luminous and dense variegated foliage year round. Pittosporum tenuifolium is a bushy evergreen shrub or small tree with glossy dark purple wavy margined leaves. In winter and cool weather the pink becomes more pronounced. Pittosporum tenuifolium are good all year round colour especially in winter.