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Cryptocarya obovata
Also called Pepperberry Tree, Purple Laurel, She Beech, White Sycamore, Australian Laurel, Pepperberry
Cryptocarya obovata, commonly known as pepperberry, white walnut, long tom, she beech or purple laurel, is a species of flowering plant in the laurel family and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a rainforest tree with oblong to egg-shaped leaves, the flowers creamy-green, tube-shaped and unpleasantly perfumed, and the fruit a spherical drupe with white or cream-coloured cotyledons.
Pepperberry grows on basaltic and fertile alluvial soils in rainforests from Wyong in New South Wales to Gympie in Queensland. It is extinct in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, and was allegedly last seen in the Illawarra in 1818 by Allan Cunningham.
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 obovata 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.
