Cultivars
'Sunburst'
This plant is smaller with light coloured foliage.

Weed Potential
As a weedSweet Pittosporum is highly invasive in regions with a moderate rainfall appearing in habitats that include woodlands, forests and along bushland margins. It also occurs in disturbed soils or degraded landscapes growing in most well drained moderately fertile moist sandy-stony to clay soils.

The trees produce seeds with in 5-years and mature plants produce thousands of highly viable seeds annually that germinate during autumn, commonly in a shaded position. Plants reduce light inhibiting the regeneration of local native tree or shrub seedlings and understorey plants. The tree also produces leaf mould that increases the fertility of soil discouraging the growth of plants that prefer an infertile soil. The seeds are dispersed by birds or animals and in garden waste.

Controlmethods include physically digging out seedlings and small plants when the soil is moist ensuring that the roots are removed as the slender trunks snap off easily and the plant re-shoots from the base.

Fruiting branches should be bagged and destroyed. Plants can be cut and painted on the stems with the sap wood revealed or drilled and injected in the trunk towards the base with a non-selective herbicide. Young plants or seedlings may be sprayed with a non-selective herbicide during spring while the plant is actively growing.