Cryptocarya laevigata
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Cryptocarya laevigata, commonly known as red-fruited laurel, glossy laurel or grey sassafras,[1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Lauraceae and is native to Malesia, New Guinea and eastern Australia. It is a shrub or tree with lance-shaped to elliptic leaves, creamy white, pale green and perfumed flowers, and more or less spherical, red to orange-yellow drupes.
Description
Cryptocarya laevigata is a shrub or tree that typically grows to a height of up to Template:Cvt, its stems not buttressed. Its leaves are lance-shaped to elliptic, Template:Cvt long and Template:Cvt wide on a petiole Template:Cvt long. The flowers are arranged in racemes or panicles in leaf axils and shorter than the leaves. They are pale brown, creamy white, pale green and perfumed. The perianth tube is Template:Cvt long, Template:Cvt wide. The outer tepals are Template:Cvt long and Template:Cvt wide and the inner tepals are Template:Cvt long and Template:Cvt wide. The outer anthers are Template:Cvt long and Template:Cvt wide, the inner anthers Template:Cvt long and Template:Cvt wide. Flowering occurs from September to December, and the fruit is a spherical, red to orange-yellow drupe Template:Cvt long and Template:Cvt wide with creamy cotyledons.[1][2][3][4]
Taxonomy
Cryptocarya laevigata was first formally described in 1826 by Carl Ludwig Blume in his Bijdragen tot de Flora van Nederlandsch Indie.[5][6] The specific epithet (laevigata) means "having a polished surface".[7]
Distribution and habitat
Cryptocarya laevigata occurs in Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Java, Sulawesi, the Philippines New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, Solomon Islands, and Australia, where it is found in New South Wales north from Lismore and in Queensland.[8] It grows in tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests.[9][4]
Uses in horticulture
The glossy leaves, small size and attractive red fruit make it suitable as an ornamental tree. Like most Australian Cryptocarya fruit, removal of the slimy red aril is advised to assist seed germination. Roots and shoots usually appear within three to twelve months.[3]
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