PITTOSPORACEAE

Cheesewood, Tallow-wood

 

14.0m (1400cm) 

Yellow or red flowers flushed with deep crimson or purple hanging on stalks. 

Seed follicles 

Small tree or stunted shrub 

Break O'Day; Burnie; Central Coast; Central Highlands; Circular Head; Derwent Valley; Devonport; Dorset; Flinders Island; Georgetown; Glamorgan-Spring Bay; Glenorchy; Hobart; Huon Valley; Kentish; King Island; Kingborough; Latrobe; Launceston; Meander Valley; Northern Midlands; Sorell; Southern Midlands; Tasman; Waratah-Wynyard; West Coast; West Tamar 

Montane Vegetation; Wet Eucalypt Forest 

Widespread in wet forests and gullies, sea level to 1500m. 

Moist; Rocky; Shady 

Moderate 

Clay; Fertile; Loam; Well-drained 

Not suitable below powerlines. 

Capsule rounded and compressed, at first yellowish-green then woody, 8-10mm broad, the valves woody , opening flat into 2 valves leaving the seeds in a red pulp in the centre. 8-20 seeds per capsule 

Washing 

 

 

To separate the seed mix with dry sand. Bird-ingested seed or seed treated with pancreatin results in more rapid germination. Contains an inhibitor in the sticky seed coating & should be washed in detergent and water, then rubbed down with coarse sand for several minutes before sowing. May be prone to damping off. 

2-3 months 

Yes 

4-6 weeks 

8-12 weeks 

No 

May be propagated from cuttings.