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Small Leaved Laurel

Cryptocarya williwilliana

Small Leaved Laurel
Photo: Poyt448 Peter Woodard, Public domain
Family
Lauraceae (Laurel family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Native range
NE. New South Wales
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Cryptocarya williwilliana, commonly known as small-leaved laurel, is a species of flowering plant in the laurel family and is endemic to near Kempsey in northern New South Wales. It is a tree or shrub with egg-shaped or lance-shaped leaves, the flowers creamy-green and perfumed, and the fruit a spherical to elliptic, black drupe.

Where it grows

Small-leaved laurel is confined to dry rainforest on limestone near Willi Willi in the Macleay River valley at altitudes of 250–800 m (820–2,620 ft).

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 williwilliana 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.

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