Len Webb Ecological Images Collection

Image No. 6-39

Flora -- Queensland -- North (Wet Tropics) Cryptocarya pleurosperma (Lauraceae), Poison Walnut Mena Creek road, Innisfail, Queensland October 1968 Larger image (96K)

A common tree which may reach the canopy of the rainforest. The common name derives from common usage of "Walnut" for timbers of Laurels, and "poison" from the toxic alkaloids in this species - cryptopleurine.
Reference:
See under Image 9-2, also Hyland, B.P.M. (1989) "A Revision of Lauraceae in Australia, excluding Cassytha. Australian Systematic Botany Vol. 2, Nos. 2,3, pp. 135-367.
Complex mesophyll vine forest.

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