Cryptocarya triplinervis, commonly known as blackbutt, three-veined cryptocarya, brown laurel or three-veined laurel, is a species of flowering plant in the family Lauraceae which is native to eastern Australia, Lord Howe Island, and southern Sulawesi. It is a tree with egg-shaped to elliptic or lance-shaped leaves, cream-coloured to pale green flowers, and elliptic black drupes.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Brown Laurel being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Cryptocarya foveolata
- Cryptocarya chinensis
- Cinnamomum yabunikkei
- Cinnamomum burmanni
- Cinnamomum osmophloeum
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Laurales
- Family
- Lauraceae
- Genus
- Cryptocarya
- Species
- Cryptocarya triplinervis
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