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Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.

Your search found 1 taxon in the family Pittosporaceae, Pittosporum family, as understood by Weakley's Flora.

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Common Name: Japanese Pittosporum, Australian Laurel, Japanese Mock-orange, Tobera

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Pittosporum tobira FAMILY: Pittosporaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Pittosporum tobira FAMILY: Pittosporaceae

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)

Rare

Non-native: Japan & China

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"As if to mock our attempts to keep these foreign creatures from entering our country on nursery stock, ...the balsam woolly adelgid (Adelges piceae), has all but eliminated the Fraser fir (Abies fraseri) from the high altitudes of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.... Because Fraser firs are endemic to the Smokies (found nowhere else in the world), their loss from the area is equivalent to their extinction." — Douglas W. Tallamy, Bringing Nature Home