Pittosporum tenuifoliumGaertn.

Kōhūhū

WFO wfo-0001094611 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g

Pittosporum tenuifolium, photographed by Halema J
fig. a Halema J, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-02 / obs. 193255604
Pittosporum tenuifolium, photographed by Jon Sullivan
fig. b Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195892396
Pittosporum tenuifolium, photographed by Jon Sullivan
fig. c Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194981539
Pittosporum tenuifolium, photographed by Jon Sullivan
fig. d Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195889040
Pittosporum tenuifolium, photographed by Jon Sullivan
fig. e Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195791392
Pittosporum tenuifolium, photographed by Jon Sullivan
fig. f Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195799443
Pittosporum tenuifolium, photographed by Jon Sullivan
fig. g Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195612029

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 371 observations

Peak flowering in Oct, from 371 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 16 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Pittosporum bidwillianum Regel
  • Pittosporum colensoi Naudin
  • Pittosporum colensoi var. fasciculatum (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
  • Pittosporum enderi Regel
  • Pittosporum fasciculatum Kirk
  • Pittosporum fasciculatum Hook.f.
  • Pittosporum mayi Cazzuola
  • Pittosporum mayi hort. ex Regel
  • Pittosporum nigricans hort. ex McMinn & Maino
  • Pittosporum tenuifolium subsp. fasciculatum (Hook.f.) Kirk
  • Pittosporum tenuifolium subsp. tenuifolium
  • Pittosporum tenuifolium unranked variegatum J.R.Duncan & V.C.Davies
  • Pittosporum tenuifolium var. fasciculatum (Hook.f.) Kirk
  • Pittosporum translucens Hook. ex Putt.
  • Schoutensia monophylla Endl.
  • Trichilia monophylla A.Rich.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.