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Cryptocarya foveolata
Mountain walnut is a medium to large rainforest tree native to eastern Australia, grown mainly for timber and shade rather than as a garden plant. It needs cool, moist, fertile soil and is rarely cultivated outside its native range.
Cryptocarya foveolata, commonly known as small-leaved laurel, small-leaved cryptocarya or mountain walnut, is a species of flowering plant in the family Lauraceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a medium-sized to large tree with elliptic to egg-shaped leaves, cream coloured, perfumed, tube-shaped flowers, and spherical black drupes.
Cryptocarya foveolata grows in rainforests on fertile soils, mostly 600 m (2,000 ft) or higher above sea level, and is often seen in association with the Antarctic beech. The natural range of distribution is from Mount Royal in the Barrington Tops to the McPherson Range on the border of Queensland and New South Wales.
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 foveolata 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.
