page_title: Pittosporum
section_title: Selected species
hierarchical_section_title: Pittosporum / Selected species
caption_attribution_description: English: Japanese Cheesewood -- Pittosporum tobira
context_page_description: Pittosporum is a genus of about 200 species of flowering plants in the family Pittosporaceae. The genus is probably Gondwanan in origin; its present range extends from Australasia, Oceania, eastern Asia and some parts of Africa. Citriobatus can be included here, but might be a distinct genus. They are commonly known as pittosporums or, more ambiguously, "cheesewoods".
  The species are trees and shrubs growing to 2–30 m tall. The leaves are spirally arranged or whorled, simple, with an entire or waved margin. The flowers are produced singly or in umbels or corymbs, each flower with five sepals and five petals; they are often sweetly scented. The fruit is a woody seed capsule, which bursts on ripening to release the numerous seeds. The seeds are coated with a sticky resinous substance. The genus is named after their sticky seeds, from the Greek meaning "pitch-seed".
  Tarata and kohuhu – both from New Zealand – and the Japanese cheesewood from southern Japan are widely cultivated as ornamental plants in subtropical regions; pittosporums can also be grown indoors as bonsai.
context_section_description: Pittosporum aliferum
  Pittosporum angustifolium
  Pittosporum anomalum Laing & Gourlay
  Pittosporum arborescens poor ex A.Gray
  Pittosporum argentifolium – hōʻawa
  Pittosporum artense
  Pittosporum bicolor
  Pittosporum bracteolatum
  Pittosporum brevispinum
  Pittosporum ceylanicum
  Pittosporum collinum
  Pittosporum confertiflorum A.Gray – hōʻawa (Hawaii)
  Pittosporum coriaceum
  Pittosporum cornifolium - tāwhiri karo
  Pittosporum crassifolium – karo
  Pittosporum dallii
  Pittosporum daphniphylloides
  Pittosporum dasycaulon
  Pittosporum divaricatum
  Pittosporum ellipticum
  Pittosporum ellipticum subsp. serpentinum
  Pittosporum eriocarpum
  Pittosporum erioloma
  Pittosporum eugenioides – tarata, lemonwood
  Pittosporum fairchildii
  Pittosporum ferrugineum
  Pittosporum gatopense
  Pittosporum glabrum – hōʻawa
  Pittosporum goetzei
  Pittosporum gomonenense
  Pittosporum heterophyllum
  Pittosporum illicioides
  Pittosporum kirkii – Kirk's pittosporum, Kirk's kōhūhū, thick-leaved kohukohu
  Pittosporum lancifolium
  Pittosporum ligustrifolium
  Pittosporum linearifolium
  Pittosporum moluccanum
  Pittosporum multiflorum
  Pittosporum muricatum
  Pittosporum napaliense
  Pittosporum nativitatis
  Pittosporum obcordatum – heart-leaved kohuhu
  Pittosporum oreillyanum – O'Reilly's pittosporum
  Pittosporum ornatum
  Pittosporum orohenense
  Pittosporum paniense
  Pittosporum parvifolium
  Pittosporum patulum
  Pittosporum pauciflorum
  Pittosporum pentandrum
  Pittosporum phillyreoides – weeping pittosporum, willow pittosporum, butterbush, native apricot
  Pittosporum pickeringii
  Pittosporum raivavaeense
  Pittosporum rapense
  Pittosporum resiniferum – petroleum nut
  Pittosporum revolutum – rough-fruited pittosporum, wild yellow jasmine, yellow pittosporum, Brisbane laurel
  Pittosporum rhombifolium (now Auranticarpa rhombifolia) – Queensland pittosporum, diamond pittosporum, Hollywood
  Pittosporum rhytidocarpum
  Pittosporum rubiginosum
  Pittosporum senacia
  Pittosporum silamense
  Pittosporum spinescens
  Pittosporum stenophyllum
  Pittosporum taitense
  Pittosporum tanianum
  Pittosporum tenuifolium – kohuhu, kohukohu, black matipo
  Pittosporum terminalioides
  Pittosporum tobira – Japanese cheesewood, Japanese mock orange
  Pittosporum trilobum
  Pittosporum turneri
  Pittosporum undulatum – sweet pittosporum, Australian cheesewood, native daphne, mock orange
  Pittosporum venulosum F.Muell.
  Pittosporum virgatum
  Pittosporum viridulatum
  Pittosporum viridiflorum
  Pittosporum viscidum
  Pittosporum wingii
  Pittosporum yunckeri A.C.Sm.
caption: Japanese Cheesewood -- Pittosporum tobira
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