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Stephenb

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New Zealand Shrub
« on: February 25, 2013, 03:09:06 PM »
A friend asked me what this shrub photographed on one of the islands off Auckland is. It looks familiar....


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Re: New Zealand Shrub
« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2013, 03:35:31 PM »
Looks like Pittosporum crassifolium.
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Re: New Zealand Shrub
« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2013, 06:40:27 PM »
Thanks!

No wonder it looked familiar, I grew one in a pot for several years and I see I have a picture I took of it in the Auckland Botanics (in the Threatened Garden) in 2003...
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Re: New Zealand Shrub
« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2013, 06:43:21 PM »
Has it got dark red flowers, a bit like a Primula  euprepes?


 Seems it does- found this : http://www.nzplants.co.uk/Pittosporum-crassifolium

Next question - to myself- is where did I  see it in flower to remember that?  ??? ::)
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Re: New Zealand Shrub
« Reply #4 on: February 25, 2013, 06:50:17 PM »
That's pretty!!
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Re: New Zealand Shrub
« Reply #5 on: February 26, 2013, 07:23:27 AM »
Similar bushes are quite common round where I live: in parks, borders along paths and roads and car parks, and in school grounds.
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