Cryptocarya densiflora, commonly known as cinnamon laurel or white laurel,[1] is a tree in the laurel family and is native to north Queensland and parts of Indonesia. Its leaves are lance-shaped to elliptic, the flowers yellowish-green and brown, tube-shaped but not perfumed, and the fruit is a flattened spherical, reddish maroon drupe that turns black when ripe.
Cryptocarya densiflora is a tree that typically grows to a height of, its stems sometimes buttressed. Its leaves are lance-shaped to elliptic, long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers are yellowish-green and pale brown, arranged in panicles more or less longer than the leaves but not perfumed, the perianth tube long an wide and hairy inside. The outer tepals are long and wide, the outer anthers long and about wide, the inner anthers long and about wide. Flowering occurs from October to January, and the fruit is a flattened, reddish-maroon drupe long and wide, turning black when ripe.[2]
Cryptocarya densiflora was first formally described in 1826 by Carl Ludwig Blume in Bijdragen tot de Flora van Nederlandsch Indie from specimens collected on Mount Salak in Indonesia.[3] [4]
Cinnamon laurel grows as an understorey tree in mountain rainforest at altitudes of . It is found from the McIlwraith Range on Cape York Peninsula to Eungella in far north Queensland, throughout Malesia and west to Java.