Kohuhu Pittosporum
Pittosporum tenuifolium
A fast, dense evergreen with glossy, wavy-edged leaves on nearly black stems and small, honey-scented purple flowers in spring, a favourite for tall hedges and screens in cool coastal gardens. It takes sea air. It's hardy only where winters are mild; shelter it from cold, drying winds.
- Mature size
- 20 × 11 ft
- 6 × 3.5 m, tall × wide
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Kohuhu Pittosporum at its mature size
A mature Kohuhu Pittosporum grows 13 to 26 feet tall and 8 to 15 feet wide, taller than most people.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: San Marcos Growers, rhs.org.uk.
Through the year
What Kohuhu Pittosporum looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
In leaf · Year-round
Small wavy glossy light green leaves on dark stems.
Photos
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Growing Kohuhu Pittosporum
- Grows well in
- The Pacific Northwest and California.
- Good for
- Privacy screen
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Native to
- New Zealand
Spacing
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Kohuhu Pittosporum, that’s about 11 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See Kohuhu Pittosporum in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other pittosporums
Variegated Pittosporum
Kohuhu PittosporumAll drawn to the same scale.