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Cryptocarya rhodosperma

Cryptocarya rhodosperma
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Cryptocarya rhodosperma is a rainforest understorey tree from north-east Queensland and Cape York, growing up to about 25 m tall. It is a wild tropical species rarely grown in gardens, so care notes apply mainly to shaded tropical cultivation.

Family
Lauraceae (Laurel family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade, Shade
Water
Keep soil evenly moist in the growing season and reduce watering in the dry season.
Soil
Free-draining, humus-rich loam or rainforest-type mix.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
N. and NE. Queensland
Climate
wet tropical

About

Cryptocarya rhodosperma is a species of flowering plant in the family Lauraceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a tree with lance-shaped to elliptic leaves, greenish, perfumed flowers, and elliptic, black drupes.

Where it grows

This species of Cryptocarya grows as an understorey tree in rainforest from 40 and 120 m (130 and 390 ft) elevation, from Lockerbie to Goldsborough in north-east Queensland and Cape York Peninsula.

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 rhodosperma 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.

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