The white flowers and orange fruit make it a most appealing street or garden tree.

Australian botanists examined the large genus Pittosporum in 2000 and decided the more northerly examples are significantly different from those in the south.

[1] The range of natural distribution is on red–brown basaltic soils from Richmond River, New South Wales (28° S) to Forty Mile Scrub National Park (18° S) in tropical Queensland.

Midrib, lateral and net veins are easily seen on both the upper and lower leaf surface.

Fruit is an orange pear-shaped capsule, 9 mm long with two or three oval black seeds.