Pittosporum
tobira
Trees
and shrubs, often climbing, of 9 genera and about 200 species, native mostly in
Australia but Pittosporum distributed over the tropics of the Old World; the
family yields ornamental subjects. Leaves
alternate or seemingly whorled, simple, usually leathery, exstipulate; flowers
mostly bisexual, regular; sepals 5, distinct or rarely united at base; petals 5,
hypogynous, the claws often connivent; stamens 5, free, alternating with the
petals; pistil 1, ovary superior; style simple, with terminal stigma, entire or
lobed. (Bailey 488).
Upper
Newport Bay species within the family: