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Roma

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Re: Unknown scented tree
« Reply #15 on: June 26, 2009, 10:10:50 PM »
We used to grow Pittosporum tobira  in a pot in the greenhouse at the Cruick shank Garden.  It looked very like your pic and was scented.
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Re: Unknown scented tree
« Reply #16 on: June 27, 2009, 10:26:55 AM »
Maggi,

I agree too. When I see the first pictures i think it looks like Pittosporum tobira. We cultivate it in the nursery I work. The plants survived the last winter in pots, in an unheated plastic-house with -10 Celsius.
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Re: Unknown scented tree
« Reply #17 on: June 27, 2009, 11:03:56 AM »
Many thanks for your help, Friends  8) :-*

I will pass on the name to the puzzled grower...... and see if I can put roots on the sample!!  ;D
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Re: Unknown scented tree
« Reply #18 on: June 27, 2009, 01:48:55 PM »
Helen Poirier , Australia

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Re: Unknown scented tree
« Reply #19 on: June 27, 2009, 02:08:05 PM »
Thanks, Helen: but no, the leaves are not joined in the "hand" system that the Choisyia are.
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Re: Unknown scented tree
« Reply #20 on: June 27, 2009, 10:48:02 PM »
I must admit I thought Choisya myself, until I realised the leaves were wrong.  The flowers are so close to the Choisyia in appearance.  :o
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