Cryptocarya glaucescens | |
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Near the Hacking River | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Magnoliids |
Order: | Laurales |
Family: | Lauraceae |
Genus: | Cryptocarya |
Species: | C. glaucescens
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Binomial name | |
Cryptocarya glaucescens |
Cryptocarya glaucescens, commonly known as jackwood,[2] silver sycamore, native laurel, brown beech, bolly laurel or brown laurel,[3] is a species of flowering plant in the laurel family and is endemic to eastern Australia. Its leaves are lance-shaped to elliptic, the flowers cream-coloured or pale green, perfumed and tube-shaped, and the fruit a black drupe.