Trees of Stanford
Pittosporaceae. Pittoraceae
1. Pittosporum
About seventy species, native in Australia, New Zealand, and surrounding islands. Five species on campus, widespread and common to infrequent.
From the Greek pitte, to tar or pitch, and sporos, seed, in reference to the seeds embedded in a sticky substance.
P. phillyraeoides previously grew on campus; no current known locations. See below for Hymenosporum.
A. Under-surface of leaves white-woolly, flowers dark-red to purple. Infrequent. | P. crassifolium |
AA. Under-surface of leaves not woolly or hairy, flowers white, greenish, yellow, except P. tenuifolium | |
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P. tobira |
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P. tobira 'variegatum' |
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P. tenuifolium |
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P. eugenoides |
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P. undulatum |
2. Hymenosporum
Hymenosporum flavum individuals disappeared from Wilbur Hall grounds sometime after 1977. In 2002 Grounds planted Hymenosporum flavum at the new Humanties Center; both specimens died.