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Pittosporum fairchildii; photograph Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SAKrzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Pittosporum fairchildii Cheeseman

Fairchild's Kohuhu

Pittosporaceae · New Zealand North

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Pittosporum fairchildii, photograph A. E. Wright, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPittosporum fairchildii, photograph Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPittosporum fairchildii, photograph Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia CommonsPittosporum fairchildii, photograph Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons 5 photographs ›

Summary

Pittosporum fairchildii, commonly called Fairchild's kohuhu, is a species of plant in the Pittosporaceae family. It is endemic to New Zealand. This species was first described by Thomas Frederic Cheeseman. It is named in honour of Captain J. Fairchild, a 19th-century seaman who commanded the S.S. Stella.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Pittosporum fairchildii", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Pittosporum

Pittosporum is a genus of about 250 species of flowering plants in the family Pittosporaceae. Plants in the genus Pittosporum are shrubs or trees with leaves arranged alternately along the stems. The flowers are arranged singly or in cymes, with white to yellow petals fused at the base forming a short tube, with stamens that are free from each other. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Pittosporum", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 9 of the 11 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeNew Zealand North · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker-34.158, 172.137 · in the densest population, 8 records (73% of those in range)
Kew's description“tree” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 11 georeferenced records inside the native range, all openly licensed and shown on the map. 15 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 9 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 11 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: A. E. Wright, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (2).

Other Pittosporum 55 in the reference

Pittosporum angustifolium Pittosporum angustifolium Weeping pittosporum Photo: CC BY, Alex StuartPittosporum anomalum Pittosporum anomalum Pittosporaceae Photo: CC BY, Cara-Lisa SchlootsPittosporum bicolor Pittosporum bicolor Banyalla Photo: CC BY, Corey O'BrienPittosporum brevicalyx Pittosporum brevicalyx Pittosporaceae Photo: CC0, DaderotPittosporum brevispinum Pittosporum brevispinum Pittosporaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedPittosporum cherrieri Pittosporum cherrieri Pittosporaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Coordination EndemiaPittosporum coccineum Pittosporum coccineum Pittosporaceae Photo: CC BY, Donald DavesnePittosporum colensoi Pittosporum colensoi Pittosporaceae Photo: CC0, author not stated Pittosporum collinum Pittosporaceae Pittosporum confertiflorum Pittosporum confertiflorum Ho'awa Photo: CC BY, Kevin FaccendaPittosporum coriaceum Pittosporum coriaceum Madeira Pittosporum Photo: CC BY, Vítor JorgePittosporum cornifolium Pittosporum cornifolium Perching kohukohu Photo: CC BY, Hannah Rogers all 56 ›

Names & registers

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The record

Family
Pittosporaceae
Described by
Cheeseman
Native to
New Zealand North
Wild records
11 in range · 11 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 4 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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