Tawhiwhi Bush

Pittosporum are evergreen trees or SHRUBSs and have fine, glossy foliage and are particularly suited to mild areas and seaside gardens in the UK. In frost prone areas, they need the shelter of a wall or to be grown in pots in a cool greenhouse or conservatory. Pittosprum tenuifolium and Pittosporum tobira. are the hardiest of the species, tolerating temperatures as low as -10C. Pittosporum tobira is a slow-growing medium-sized evergreen SHRUBS with leathery, glossy, oval leaves, and large terminal clusters of small sweetly-fragrant flowers opening white, and turning yellow, in late Spring and early Summer