Tarata
Pittosporum eugenioides A.Cunn.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 6.0 m
- wide
- 3.2 m
Pittosporaceae
Also called Lemonwood
Formerly Pittosporum elegans, Pittosporum microcarpum
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- New ZealandKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS full; Wikipedia full, part
- Height
- 4.0 m to 8.0 mRead from RHS, one source
- Spread
- 2.5 m to 4.0 mRead from RHS, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS yellow; Wikipedia cream, yellow
- Coldest it survives
- -10 °C (USDA zone 8a)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (7)
- Portuguese
- Pitósporo-limão
- Māori
- Tarata
- Swedish
- citronglansbuske
- German
- Zitronen-Klebsame
- Finnish
- tähtikielopuu
- Chinese (China)
- 橙香海桐
- Chinese
- 丁香海桐, 橙香海桐
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Pittosporum eugenioides (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.