WALLABY APPLE

Pittosporum spinescens

Plant Family

Pittosporaceae

Alternative Common Names

Large-fruited Orange Thorn

Shrub or small tree to 8 m high, branchlets mostly spiny; spines 1 cm long.

Leaves - obovate or cuneate, 5–20 mm long, 2–10 mm wide, the midvein evident only on lower surface, smooth, mostly stemless.

Flowers - solitary and white. Petals 8–10 mm long.

Fruit - smooth round, 2-3cm diameter, pericarp thick, hard, ripening to edible yellow or orange.

Flowering spring to summer

Habitat

Grows in dry sclerophyll forest, dry rainforest and closed scrub, north from Warialda.

Map Reference

20, 21