Description
Pittosporum tobira (scientific name: Pittosporum tobira) is an evergreen shrub or small tree of the genus Dicotyledon, Pittosporum tobira, and Pittosporum tobira. It is up to 6 meters tall. The tender branches are brown pilose and have lenticels. The leaves gather on the tops of branches, two-year-old, leathery; umbels or corymb-shaped umbels are terminal or near-terminal, the flowers are white, fragrant, and then turn yellow; the capsules are round, angular or triangular, 12 mm in diameter ; Flowering period from March to May, fruit maturity period from September to October.
Produced in southern Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong and other places; North Korea and Japan are also distributed. It is widely distributed in the Yangtze River Basin and the Huai River Basin, and the production area of Pittosporum vulgaris for gardens is located in Zhangjiagang, Suzhou, Jiangsu, etc.