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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Stephenb on February 25, 2013, 03:09:06 PM

Title: New Zealand Shrub
Post by: Stephenb on February 25, 2013, 03:09:06 PM

A friend asked me what this shrub photographed on one of the islands off Auckland is. It looks familiar....

Title: Re: New Zealand Shrub
Post by: Oron Peri on February 25, 2013, 03:35:31 PM

Looks like Pittosporum crassifolium.

Title: Re: New Zealand Shrub
Post by: Stephenb on February 25, 2013, 06:40:27 PM

Thanks!

No wonder it looked familiar, I grew one in a pot for several years and I see I have a picture I took of it in the Auckland Botanics (in the Threatened Garden) in 2003...

Title: Re: New Zealand Shrub
Post by: Maggi Young on February 25, 2013, 06:43:21 PM

Has it got dark red flowers, a bit like a Primula  euprepes?


 Seems it does- found this : http://www.nzplants.co.uk/Pittosporum-crassifolium (http://www.nzplants.co.uk/Pittosporum-crassifolium)

Next question - to myself- is where did I  see it in flower to remember that?  ??? ::)

Title: Re: New Zealand Shrub
Post by: Stephenb on February 25, 2013, 06:50:17 PM

That's pretty!!

Title: Re: New Zealand Shrub
Post by: Anthony Darby on February 26, 2013, 07:23:27 AM

Similar bushes are quite common round where I live: in parks, borders along paths and roads and car parks, and in school grounds.