*Pittosporum tobira (Thunberg) W.T. Aiton. Common name: Japanese Pittosporum, Tobera, Australian Laurel. Habitat: Disturbed maritime forests and maritime forests edges, disturbed hammocks, especially in coastal areas (frequently planted on barrier islands because of its resistance to salt spray, at least persisting and apparently naturalizing). Distribution: Native of Japan and China.
Origin/Endemic status: E. and se. Asia
Other Comments: Various cultivars are seen, including ones with variegated leaves. This species is one of the more common landscaping plants used on developed barrier islands. The revolute, obovate to oblanceolate leaves are characteristic. Reported for AL (Dauphin Island, Mobile County) by H. Horne (pers. comm., 2013).
Synonymy ⓘ: = FNA13, K4, WH3, Judd (1996); Euonymus tobira Thunb. = n/a — RAB; > Pittosporum tobira (Thunb.) W.T.Aiton var. calvescens Ohwi — Lin et al (2013); > Pittosporum tobira (Thunb.) W.T.Aiton var. tobira — Lin et al (2013). Basionym: Euonymus tobira Thunb. 1780
Links to other floras: = Pittosporum tobira - FNA13
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