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Cryptocarya triplinervis
Also called Three Vein Cryptocarya, Three Veined Laurel
Cryptocarya triplinervis, commonly known as blackbutt, three-veined cryptocarya, brown laurel or three-veined laurel, is a species of flowering plant in the family Lauraceae which is native to eastern Australia, Lord Howe Island, and southern Sulawesi. It is a tree with egg-shaped to elliptic or lance-shaped leaves, cream-coloured to pale green flowers, and elliptic black drupes.
Like most Australian species of Cryptocarya, removal of the aril is advised to assist seed germination. Around 80% of the seeds will germinate, taking between three and six months. Plants generally take around five years to fruit in Brisbane.
The variety pubens occurs in warmer and drier rainforest, sometimes along creeks and rivers, from the Atherton Tableland in north Queensland to Coffs Harbour in northern New South Wales, at altitudes from sea level to 750 m (2,460 ft). Var. riparia is endemic to Queensland, where it is found between the Iron Range and Cardwell, occurring in gallery forests along creeks and rivers, from sea level to 400 m (1,300 ft). and var. triplinervis is found between Townsville in central Queensland and Smoky Cape in northern New South Wales, and on Lord Howe Island, growing in rainforest, southern beech forest, and littoral rainforest, from sea level to an altitude of 100 m (330 ft).
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 triplinervis 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.
