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Cryptocarya turbinata

Cryptocarya turbinata is a tropical rainforest tree of the laurel family, native to islands in the southwest Pacific. It is a canopy tree in the wild and is not a common garden or houseplant.

Family
Lauraceae (Laurel family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist, watering when the top layer begins to dry.
Soil
Fertile, free-draining, slightly acidic humus-rich mix.
Temperature
20-30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
SW. Pacific
Climate
wet tropical

About

Cryptocarya turbinata is a species of flowering plant in the laurel family, Lauraceae. It is a tree native to Fiji, Niue, the Samoan Islands, Tonga, and Vanuatu.

In Tonga it is a common canopy tree in lowland tropical rain forest below 500 meters elevation.

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 turbinata 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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