The white flowers and orange fruit make it a very attractive street tree or garden. Other common names include stick Holly (Hollywood), laurel leaf diamond (Diamond Laurel Leaf), Myrtle White (White Myrtle) and Holly White (White Holly).
Australian botanists recently examined the extensive genus Pittosporum and decided that the more northern specimens are significantly different from those in the south. Subsequently, a new genus was created Auranticarpa, which means "golden fruit."
The range of their natural range is in the brown-red basaltic soils from the Richmond River (28 ° S) to the National Park to Forty Mile Scrub (18 ° S) in tropical Queensland.
Description
A small tree, up to 25 meters in height and a trunk diameter of 45 cm. The bark is gray, irregular, not smooth and is almost corky. The leaves are alternate, toothed uneven patterns in the upper half of the leaf.
They are jagged when they are closer to the stem. Rhomboid form, 5 to 10 cm long and 4-7 cm wide. The veins, including the central and the side are easy to see both the beam and in the back.
Flowers and fruit
Small white flowers grow in terminal corymbs November to January. The fruit is a capsule as proficient, 9 mm long with two or three black seeds oval. Fruits ripen from February to May. Germination of fresh seed is slow, taking up to four months to about one third d seed taking root and shoots.
Uses
It is a very popular ornamental tree. You need a well drained soil. It requires full sun for a significant deployment of orange fruit.
Source: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auranticarpa_rhombifolia
See Also: International Flower Delivery, Florist
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