Plant Profile

Pittosporum tobira (Japanese Pittosporum, Japanese Cheese Wood)

Pittosporum is an evergreen shrub with fragrant creamy-white flowers grouped in clusters that bloom from April to June. It grows well in all types of soil, even in dry and sandy soils, and it is one of the most salt resistant shrubs. The plant can tolerate urban pollution and has been a popular shrub in the Mediterranean coast, often used in landscaping as hedges and screens in patios, balconies, and also in troughs outside restaurants and shops.

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  • By Dalgial (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
  • By Kurt Stüber [1] [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons

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