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Glenugie Laurel

Cryptocarya floydii

Also called Gorge Laurel

Glenugie Laurel
Photo: Poyt448 Peter Woodard, CC0
Family
Lauraceae (Laurel family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
SE. Queensland to NE. New South Wales
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Cryptocarya floydii, commonly known as Glenugie laurel or gorge laurel is a species of flowering plant in the family Lauraceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a tree with lance-shaped leaves, pale green tube-shaped flowers, and spherical black drupes.

Where it grows

This species of Cryptocarya grows in drier rainforest, usually in rocky areas, from 300 to 1,050 m (980 to 3,440 ft) elevation between the Bunya Mountains in southern Queensland and Wollomombi Falls in northern New South Wales.

Other Cryptocarya plants

Cinnamomum elegans · Cryptocarya agathophylla · Chilean Acorn · Cryptocarya anamalayana · Ivory laurel · Cryptocarya bamagana · Cryptocarya bellendenkerana · Yellow Laurel · Cryptocarya brassii · Cryptocarya burckiana · Cryptocarya caesia · Cryptocarya cercophylla

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cryptocarya floydii 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.

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