- Author: Donald R. Hodel
- Author: Dennis Pittenger
Published on: January 21, 2015
![Figure 1. This healthy Victorian box (Pittosporum undulatum) tree exhibits a dense canopy, glossy green foliage, and fragrant white flowers, making it an attractive landscape subject. (D. R. Hodel, UCCE, Los Angeles)](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/UCIPMurbanpests/blogfiles/27307small.png)
Figure 1. This healthy Victorian box (Pittosporum undulatum) tree exhibits a dense canopy, glossy green foliage, and fragrant white flowers, making it an attractive landscape subject. [Photo by D. Hodel]
[From the December 2014 issue of the UC IPM Green Bulletin]
Victorian box (Pittosporum undulatum) is an evergreen tree native to Australia that grows moderately fast to about 50 feet high and wide. It was much planted as an ornamental landscape subject in the first half of the 20th century in coastal central and southern California, especially from Santa Barbara to San Diego, where it was used as a lawn or street tree, background, screen, or informal hedge, and prized for its dense canopy, attractive and glossy green foliage, fragrant white flowers,...
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