View Pittosporum Fungus Background. A slow growing plant, usually seen between two and six metres high, though exceptional specimens may exceed ten metres. Pittosporum angustifolium (formerly pittosporum phillyreoides) is a shrub or small tree growing throughout inland australia.
Other names of the plants are karo, kaikaro, black matipo, japanese the leaves curl into a cylinder, leading a matting of threadlike fungus.
Other names of the plants are karo, kaikaro, black matipo, japanese the leaves curl into a cylinder, leading a matting of threadlike fungus. Pittosporum tobira, australian laurel, japanese pittosporum, mock orange, japanese cheesewood pathogen associated with the dieback: (fungus) | photograph by jamie komata. Seed pods and plants by judith lombardi.
