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Cryptocarya nova-anglica
Also called Point Lookout Laurel
Cryptocarya nova-anglica, commonly known as mountain laurel, is a species of flowering plant in the family Lauraceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is a tree with lance-shaped leaves, creamy green flowers, and elliptic to spherical to pear-shaped black drupes.
This species of Cryptocarya grows in montane rainforest, often with Nothofagus moorei, at elevations between 1,100 and 1,350 m (3,610 and 4,430 ft), and is found in northern New South Wales between Mount Nothofagus in the McPherson Range and Mount Boss near Wauchope.
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 nova-anglica 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.
