Pittosporum undulatum
| Family Name | Pittosporaceae |
|---|---|
| Currently Accepted Name | Pittosporum undulatum Vent. |
| Locality | USA. California , San Francisco Co. : Between Letterman Army Hospital and Letterman Army Institute of Research, Presidio, San Francisco. 37° 46' 30" N 122° 25' 10" W |
| Description | Small trees; petals 5 (infrequent 6), filaments, and stigma white; ovary and style very pale green; anthers light yellow; sepals pale, rather dull greenish yellow; immature flowers green; ripening ones subglobose, a slightly suppressed or dullish orange (when heat-dried, they split open and turned dark greenish-gray to blackish); fully mature flowers, having dehisced already, with widely spreading valves, were dusky or brackish with viscid seeds; leaves with undulate-revolute margins, were somewhat shiny above; many were inconspicuously mottled and bordered with lighter green; beneath, they were a paler, flatter green; midrib paler than blades on both surfaces; bark pale gray toward base; a somewhat darker gray with a buffy or ochraceous cast on higher branches; additionally, there were raised, pale lenticels, varying greatly in size, some elongate and horizontally disposed; trunks two to several from base, arising from a few in. to 1-1.5 ft. above ground; almost all branches were ascending to suberect; some were spreading; height to ca. 20 ft.; width to ca. 15 ft. |
| Habitat | Planted on lawn. |
| Reproductive State | |
| Specimen Notes | CULTIVATED. Victorian-Box; Mock-orange. (Pittospora: Austrailia). |
| Collector | R. A. Norris 4289 |
| Collection Date | 01 Dec 1981 |
| Accession Number | 266057 |
| Image | 266057.jpg |