Pittosporum tobira 'Variegata' prophouse-summer-2026 for the chestnut-like toothing of

for the chestnut-like toothing of the leaves

Every part is poisonous if eaten

The name Wuzi translates as dark purple

Use white beautyberry in a shrub border

Pittosporum tobira 'Variegata' prophouse-summer-2026 for the chestnut-like toothing ofIn Japan they call the shrub tobira, short for tobira no ki, the door tree, because the cut branches were hung in the doorway at Setsubun to turn back demons at the threshold of spring. The broken wood smells rank, which was rather the point: bad spirits, like most of us, would rather not walk through a bad smell. The genus name is kinder and more exact, pitta and sporos, pitch and seed, for the resin that coats the black seeds and glues them to