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Cryptocarya bamagana, the Bamaga walnut, is a rainforest tree in the laurel family, endemic to Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland, growing to about 15 m. It is a wild rainforest species rarely cultivated, so care advice is limited to general tropical rainforest conditions.
Cryptocarya bamagana, commonly known as Bamaga walnut, is a tree in the laurel family and is endemic to Cape York Peninsula. Its leaves are lance-shaped to elliptic or egg-shaped, the flowers cream-coloured and tube-shaped, and the fruit a spherical black drupe.
Bamaga walnut grows near creeks in rainforest at elevations from 20–100 m (66–328 ft) above sea level on Cape York Peninsula in Queensland.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cryptocarya bamagana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
