Botanical Name: Pittosporum tenuifolium Golf Ball
Common Names: Kohuhu,
Native: Foliage Type:
No Evergreen
Plant Type: Plant Habit:
Hedging / Screening, Shrubs Rounded
Description:
Pittosporum, Golf Ball is a vigorous grower, yet stays very compact and round with little pruning. Branching freely from its base, Golf Ball develops a very dense, multi-stemmed shape. Pittosporum Golf Ball has bright mint-green glossy leaves with small, inconspicuous chocolate-purple flowers in late spring/early summer. This evergreen specimen is low maintenance, staying around 80cm tall x 80cm wide. Pittosporum Golf Ball is ideal for foundation plantings, as a specimen plant, or to replace boxwoods as a hedge in small formal borders. Golf Ball works well as a container or patio planting.
Mature Height: Mature Width:
30-60cm <30cm
Position: Soil Type:
Full Sun, Semi Shade Well Drained
Landscape Use(s)
Balcony / Roof, Borders / Shrubbery, Costal Garden, Courtyard, Feature, Foliage Feature / Colour, Formal Garden, Hedging / Screeningd, Mass Planting, Rockery, Shady Garden
Pests & Diseases: Generally trouble free
Plant Care
Annual slow release fertiliser, Keep moist during dry periods, Mulch well
Family Name: Origin:
Pittosporaceae PacificIslands
Characteristics
Foliage Colour: Green
Flower Colour: Insignificant
Flower Fragrant: No
Flowering Season: Summer
Fruit: Insignificant
Requirements Tolerances
Growth Rate: Fast
Maintenance Level: Low
Water Usage: Low
Drought: Medium / Moderate
Frost: Moderate
Wind: High
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