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Cryptocarya brassii is a species of flowering plant in the laurel family and is native to far north Queensland and Papua New Guinea. Its leaves are elliptic to oblong or lance-shaped, the flowers cream-coloured and tube-shaped, and the fruit an elliptic black to bluish-black drupe.
This species of laurel grows in gallery forest at elevations between 40 and 100 m (130 and 330 ft) from Bamaga to Coen on Cape York Peninsula and in southern New Guinea.
Cinnamomum elegans · Cryptocarya agathophylla · Chilean Acorn · Cryptocarya anamalayana · Ivory laurel · Cryptocarya bamagana · Cryptocarya bellendenkerana · Yellow Laurel · Cryptocarya burckiana · Cryptocarya caesia · Cryptocarya cercophylla · Cryptocarya chinensis
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cryptocarya brassii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
