Pittosporum family : PITTOSPORACEAE (ROSIDAE) in Australia

Flower Families

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) & Christine Ashe

Plant Classes

Billardiera scandens Common Appleberry Wyee, April 2007	Bursaria incana Prickly Pine Magnetic Island Photos: courtesy of Donald Simpson	Bursaria spinosa Blackthorn Wyee, December 2007	Bursaria tenuifolia Sweet Blackthorn Magnetic Island Photos: courtesy of Donald Simpson
Citriobatus pauciflorus Orange thorn Wyee, September 2007	Hymenosporum flavum Sweetshade Sydney, August 2006	Pittosporum eugenioides 'variegatum' Lemonwood Sydney, July 2007	Pittosporum ferrugineum Rusty Pittosporum Magnetic Island Photos: courtesy of Donald Simpson, April 2012
Pittosporum revolutum Brisbane Laurel Photo : courtesy of Doug and Ruth Jessop Coombabah, April 2007	Pittosporum rhombifolium Diamond Pittosporum Wyee, November 2007	Pittosporum tenuifolium Kohuhu Wyee, September 2011	Pittosporum tobira Japanese Pittosporum Sydney, October 2006

Pittosporum undulatum Sweet Pittosporum Wyee, August 2008

Pittosporum venulosum Velvet Pittosporum Bundaberg

A number of Australian Butterflies and Moths have larvae that prefer to feed on plants in PITTOSPORACEAE, including:

Paralucia aurifera

Paralucia pyrodiscus

Paralucia spinifera

Gymnoscelis species

Lepidoscia arctiella

Cardamyla carinentalis

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Australian butterflies

Australian Lepidoptera

Australian moths

(updated 4 January 2013, 8 January 2024)