Full Record Details

Catalog #: NA0049147

Family: Pittosporaceae

Collector: Whittemore, Alan T.

Number: 02-026

Date: 2002-11-27

Locality: United States, California, San Mateo County, Redwood City; Garden of 418 Hillway Drive.

Latitude/Longitude: 37.466667  -122.283333

Verbatim Coordinates: 37° 28m N; 122° 17m W

Elevation: 98 meters Verbatim Elevation: 320 feet

Habitat: Gentle slope, SE-facing hillside, soil heavy clay, bedrock Franciscan chert.

Description: Dense bushy evergreen tree 6 m tall; fruit pale orange (will become brown and woody); cut twigs with a resinous odor. Spontaneous seedling ca 1960 from a tree ca 20 m away; has done well with no attention at all aside from occasional pruning, but grows much faster since a garden was put in in the next property (ca 3 m away). Pleasant and green all year, but but the woody fruit and sticky seeds are a nuisance - they stick to shoes and get tracked all over the garden and house. Seedlings often appear in cultivated beds, never in waste ground. Whittemore 02-001 is flowering specimens from the same tree.

Preparations: Pressed specimen

Cultivation Status: Cultivated

Disposition: General herbarium