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Cryptocarya bellendenkerana is a rainforest tree from the laurel family, endemic to the mountains of north Queensland, Australia. It is not a common garden or houseplant, so care guidance is mainly for cultivation in a warm, humid, frost-free climate.
Cryptocarya bellendenkerana is a tree in the laurel family and is endemic to North Queensland. Its leaves are lance-shaped to egg-shaped, the flowers creamy-green and tube-shaped, and the fruit a spherical black drupe.
This species of Cryptocarya grows in mountain rainforest from south of Cooktown to Mount Bartle Frere in north Queensland, at elevations between 1,100 and 1,500 m (3,600 and 4,900 ft).
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cryptocarya bellendenkerana 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.
