Pittosporum viridiflorum
Sims · speciesAt a glance
Sources14 archives
Databases and archives Pittosporum viridiflorum's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation2 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility3 001 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI2 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics4 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗
NPASSNat. Product Activity & Species Sourcecompounds↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype
WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Pittosporum viridiflorum (Cape cheesewood, , , , ) is a protected tree in South Africa.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology10
Life cycle & reproduction25
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment28
Physiology & chemistry21
Uses & economy12
Other traits8
Compounds documented for Pittosporum viridiflorum across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile5 classes
Documented compounds69 total
| Compound | Class | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| (-)-Caryophyllene | present | NPASS | |
| (1R,2E,5R,6E,10S)-3,7-dimethyl-10-propan-2-ylcyclodeca-2,6-diene-1,5-diol | present | NPASS | |
| (1R,2R,3S,6E,8R,10S)-6,10-dimethyl-3-propan-2-yl-11-oxabicyclo[8.1.0]undec-6-ene-2,8-diol | present | NPASS | |
| (1R,2R,4aR,8R,8aS)-2-(2-hydroxypropan-2-yl)-4a-methyl-2,3,4,5,6,7,8,8a-octahydro-1H-naphthalene-1,8-diol | present | NPASS | |
| (1R,4S,5E,7S)-4-methyl-10-methylidene-7-propan-2-ylcyclodec-5-ene-1,4-diol | present | NPASS | |
| (1R,4S,6R,10S)-4,12,12-trimethyl-9-methylidene-5-oxatricyclo[8.2.0.04,6]dodecane | present | NPASS | |
| (1S,2R,4aR,5R,8aR)-4a-methyl-8-methylidene-2-propan-2-yl-1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8a-octahydronaphthalene-1,5-diol | present | NPASS | |
| (1S,2S,3R,5S,8E,11S)-2-hydroxy-5,9-dimethyl-14-methylidene-4,12-dioxatricyclo[9.3.0.03,5]tetradec-8-en-13-one | present | NPASS | |
| (1S,2S,3S,5R,8E,11S)-2-hydroxy-5,9-dimethyl-14-methylidene-4,12-dioxatricyclo[9.3.0.03,5]tetradec-8-en-13-one | present | NPASS | |
| (1S,3R,5S,8E,10R,11S)-10-hydroxy-3,8-dimethyl-12-methylidene-4,14-dioxatricyclo[9.3.0.03,5]tetradec-8-en-13-one | present | NPASS |
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Pittosporum viridiflorum has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
The complete instruction manual Pittosporum viridiflorum carries — its genome. We read it from three angles — how big it is, how the DNA is packed into chromosomes, and how completely it has been sequenced — and explain how to read each value as you go.
Chromosomes & ploidyhow the DNA is packaged
2n is the full chromosome count in a normal body cell; n is a gamete (egg or sperm), which carries half. Ploidy is how many complete chromosome sets each cell holds — 2× (diploid) is typical for animals, while higher levels (polyploidy) are common in plants. Click any value below to see the underlying records and sources.
2n 241×CCDB · book-ipcn65
diploid inferred1×PloiDB · genus-scale
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The orange marker is the DNA clock: DNA accumulates mutations at a roughly steady rate, so comparing this species' DNA with its relatives estimates when the lineage split off — independently of any fossil.
Record type3 001 records
Range
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions32 of 88 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Pretoria, ZA | 394 |
| Saint Louis, US | 112 |
| Durban, ZA | 77 |
| Kew, GB | 71 |
| Cape Town, ZA | 61 |
| Plocation not on record | 40 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 31 |
| Parc Botanique et Zoologique de Tsimbazaza (PBZT)location not on record | 29 |
| WAGlocation not on record | 25 |
| Embrapa Agrobiology Diazothrophic Microbial Culture Collectionlocation not on record | 21 |
| National Museums of Kenyalocation not on record | 18 |
| Glocation not on record | 17 |
| TAFORI-LSRClocation not on record | 15 |
| LNBG$location not on record | 12 |
| CJBGlocation not on record | 11 |
| Uppsala, SE | 11 |
| Stockholm, SE | 8 |
| Clocation not on record | 8 |
| Addis Ababa, ET | 8 |
| Yaoundé, CM | 8 |
| Haramaya Universitylocation not on record | 7 |
| Bronx, US | 7 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 7 |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 6 |
| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record | 6 |
| Centre National d'Application des Recherches Pharmaceutiques (CNARP)location not on record | 5 |
| GHPG$location not on record | 5 |
| Centre National de la Recherche Appliquée au Developement Rurallocation not on record | 5 |
| HAWlocation not on record | 5 |
| EAlocation not on record | 4 |
| Berlin, DE | 4 |
| BISHlocation not on record | 4 |
| Honolulu, US | 4 |
| Uniwersytet Jagiellońskilocation not on record | 3 |
| MAlocation not on record | 3 |
| Mlocation not on record | 3 |
| San Diego, US | 3 |
| Claremont, US | 3 |
| MSB-3054location not on record | 3 |
| Arusha, TZ | 3 |
| LISClocation not on record | 3 |
| Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropicallocation not on record | 3 |
| Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung: Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseumlocation not on record | 2 |
| FTlocation not on record | 2 |
| Zürich, CH | 2 |
| University of Hamburglocation not on record | 2 |
| LBVlocation not on record | 2 |
| Forestry Research Institute of Nigerialocation not on record | 2 |
| Elocation not on record | 2 |
| Wlocation not on record | 2 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 2 |
| Flagstaff, US | 2 |
| Coimbra, PT | 2 |
| South Kensington, GB | 2 |
| Philadelphia, US | 1 |
| Herbier National du Gabonlocation not on record | 1 |
| Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record | 1 |
| DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record | 1 |
| Paris, FR | 1 |
| Ulocation not on record | 1 |
| Southern Highlands Conservation Programmelocation not on record | 1 |
| University of Johannesburglocation not on record | 1 |
| Norfolk, US | 1 |
| HNBlocation not on record | 1 |
| Phoenix, US | 1 |
| CASlocation not on record | 1 |
| BRLUlocation not on record | 1 |
| Calabar, NG | 1 |
| Cambridge, US | 1 |
| MHUlocation not on record | 1 |
| Madison, US | 1 |
| Institute for Agricultural Research of Mozambiquelocation not on record | 1 |
| National Herbarium of São Tomé and Principelocation not on record | 1 |
| Llocation not on record | 1 |
| Goucher Collegelocation not on record | 1 |
| Njala Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Dekalb, US | 1 |
| FIlocation not on record | 1 |
| GZUlocation not on record | 1 |
| University of Oxfordlocation not on record | 1 |
| South African National Biodiversity Institutelocation not on record | 1 |
| University of Johannesburg, Department of Botany and Plant Biotechnologylocation not on record | 1 |
| Chaguaramas, TT | 1 |
| Riverside, US | 1 |
| Xiamen, CN | 1 |
| BClocation not on record | 1 |
| TFDlocation not on record | 1 |
| Miami, US | 1 |
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Where the DNA of Pittosporum viridiflorum was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Where its DNA was found
How strong is each trace?
Modelled climatemodelled
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.