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Scientific Name
Family
Common Names
Origin
Naturalised Distribution
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habit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

habit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

greyish-brown branches (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

leaves and flowers (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

shiny green leaves with wavy margins (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

paler and duller leaf undersides (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

younger stems and dark purplish-red flowers (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

close-up of flowers with reflexed petals (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

Pittosporum tenuifolium

Scientific Name

Pittosporum tenuifolium Gaertn.

Family

Pittosporaceae

Common Names

black matipo, kohuhu, New Zealand kohuhu, pittosporum, tawhiwhi

Origin

Native to New Zealand.

Naturalised Distribution

Naturalised in south-eastern Australia (i.e. in southern Victoria and the sub-coastal districts of central New South Wales). Also sparingly naturalised in south-eastern South Australia and possibly naturalised in Tasmania.

Naturalised overseas in south-western USA (i.e. California).

Notes

Kohuhu (Pittosporum tenuifolium) is regarded as an environmental weed in Victoria.