Pittosporum Ralphii Hedge

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Pittosporum ralphii hedge. It is both cold and coastal tolerant. Pittosporum ralphii is a hardy north island evergreen shrub that will handle coastal conditions. Your pittosporum hedge will require very little pruning and care. This is an interesting plant when grown as a shrub however it lends itself to be standardised and trained as a topiary or small tree.

Naturally occurring only in the north island. It grows between latitudes 37 30 south and 40 south in the central north island east cape and along the wanganui and the patea rivers in taranaki hawkes bay rangitikei. Pittosporum ralphii is an evergreen shrub growing to 4 m 13ft by 3 m 9ft. Pittosporum ralphii stephens island the foliage has a good texture to it when new it is a lime green toning to a deeper silvery olive green with time.

Pittosporum with a rounded bushy habit and large dark green leaves which are. A great nz native that looks equally good as a specimen in the garden or used for a compact hedge. The foliage is smooth with a slight grey green appearance with attractive pointed leaves. Dicotyledonous trees shrubs.

Back to search results. It grows to 6m in height and a spread up to 5 m. This is a fast growing large shrub or small upright tree with spreading stems and wavy margined alternate leaves to 10cm. Foliage has a white tormentum on the reverse.

If it does get out of hand even a very neglected pittosporum hedge can be easily revived with a good hard prune and will look amazing in no time. Pittosporum ralphii stephens island makes a superb hedge with lime to olive green foliage and quick but tightly compact growth up to 3m tall. Pittosporum ralphii stephens island this plant has a tidy habit with an upright medium form. Pittosporum ralphii ralph s kohuhu.

Keep it as low as 1 5m if you prefer. The flowers are bell shaped and dark red they can be found in late spring they are followed by hairy ovoid capsules. A pittosporum hedge is a lovely soft way to create a dense screen quickly. Crassifolium karo makes an.

The species is hermaphrodite has both male and female organs. The national vegetation survey nvs databank is a physical archive and electronic databank containing records of over 94 000 vegetation survey plots including data from over 19 000 permanent plots. It is hardy to zone uk 9.