page_title: Pittosporum bicolor
section_title: Distribution and habitat
hierarchical_section_title: Pittosporum bicolor / Distribution and habitat
caption_attribution_description: English: Distribution map of Pittosporum bicolor
context_page_description: Pittosporum bicolor, commonly known as cheesewood or banyalla, is a flowering shrub or small tree of the Pittosporaceae family, and is native to south eastern Australia.
  It is common and widespread, growing as an understorey plant in temperate wet sclerophyll forests of south eastern New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania.
context_section_description: Pittosporum bicolor occurs statewide across Tasmania and the Bass Strait Islands. It is loosely restricted to the south eastern most parts of New South Wales and Victoria (Figure 1).
  It grows as a shrub or a small tree in gullies and the shrub understorey of wet sclerophyll forests, and is therefore tolerant of shaded conditions. It prefers to grow in moist, well drained soils, and does not typically occur at altitudes greater than 1,000 metres above sea level.
  It is not uncommon for Pittosporum bicolor to occur as an epiphyte on soft tree fern species, such as Dicksonia antarctica, this is possibly an adaptation to avoid seedlings being consumed by browsing mammals.
caption: Figure 1: Distribution of P. bicolor across Australia.[6]
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