Cryptocarya bidwillii, commonly known as yellow laurel,[1] 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 creamy-white and tube-shaped, and the fruit an elliptic black drupe.
Cryptocarya bidwillii is a tree that typically grows to a height of, its stem usually not buttressed. Its leaves are lance-shaped to elliptic, long and wide on a petiole long. The leaves are glabrous, the upper surface green and shiny but the lower surface is paler. The flowers are creamy-white and arranged in panicles almost as long as the leaves. The tepals are long, the outer anthers long and wide, the inner anthers long and wide. Flowering occurs in December, and the fruit is an elliptic black drupe long and wide.[2] [3]
Cryptocarya bidwillii was first formally described in 1864 by Carl Meissner in de Candolle's Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis from specimens collected by John Carne Bidwill near Wide Bay.[4] [5]
Yellow laurel grows in seasonal rainforest at altitudes up to, between near Mackay in north Queensland and near Grafton in New South Wales.