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Cryptocarya whiffiniana is a rainforest tree from north Queensland that can reach about 20 m, with glossy lance-shaped leaves and small creamy flowers followed by dark drupes. It is a rare, wild-collected species rather than a common garden plant, so care is mainly about wet tropical conditions.
Cryptocarya whiffiniana is a species of flowering plant in the family Lauraceae and is endemic to north Queensland. It is a tree with oblong, lance-shaped or narrowly elliptic leaves, creamy green flowers, and elliptic glaucous or black drupes.
This species of Cryptocarya grows in rainforest at altitudes from 520 to 720 m (1,710 to 2,360 ft) from the Lamb Range to the Gadgarra area in north Queensland.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cryptocarya whiffiniana 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.
