Pittosporum phillyreoides
Willow Pittosporum
Willow Pittosporum
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Common name: Willow Pittosporum
Also, Weeping Pittosporum
Conservation status: ...
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A shrub or small columnar tree in the Apiales order
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Endemic to Australia
The 'original true' Pittosporum phillyreoides named by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle was only native to a narrow coastal strip of northern Western Australia.
When considered as the synonym, Pittosporum angustifolium is native across Australia in NSW, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia, and the Northern Territory
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Taxonomy
This species is subject to some taxonomic confusion
It was originally published by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in 1824, as a species native to a narrow coastal strip of northern Western Australia, the epithet "phillyreoides" referring to a similarity with Phillyrea
Two more Western Australian species — P. angustifolium and P. ligustrifolium— were published over the next 15 years, and George Bentham later lumped together all three as a single species under the misspelled name P. phillyraeoides
These three were re-split in a 2000 classification revision. but in the 2001 ARS Systematic Botanists revision, Pittosporum phillyreoides was recombined and became a synonym for Pittosporum angustifolium
Neither circumscription has yet won universal acceptance
Cultivation
Pittosporum phillyreoides, a name still seen used in the plant nursery trade, is cultivated as an ornamental tree for planting in gardens
It has a somewhat columnar growth with weeping form and foliage texture, and is drought tolerant once established
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