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Cryptocarya erythroxylon
Also called Rose Maple, Rose Walnut, Rosewood Cryptocarya, Southern Maple, Pidgeonberry Ash
Cryptocarya erythroxylon commonly known as rose maple, rose walnut, pigeonberry ash, red-wooded cryptocarya, southern maple or bottleberry, is a species of flowering plant in the laurel family and is endemic to eastern Australia. Its leaves are elliptic to lance-shaped the flowers cream-coloured and tube-shaped, and the fruit a pear-shaped black drupe.
Rose maple grows in subtropical rainforest in coastal ranges at elevations at 500–1,050 m (1,640–3,440 ft) between Gympie in Queensland and Barrington Tops in New South Wales.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cryptocarya erythroxylon 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.
