Cryptocarya corrugata

Cryptocarya corrugata, commonly known as corduroy laurel, oak walnut, acidwood or bull's breath, is a species of flowering plant in the laurel family and is endemic to north Queensland. It is a tree with egg-shaped to elliptic leaves, the flowers creamy-green, slightly perfumed and tube-shaped, and the fruit a spherical black to bluish-black drupe.

Description
Cryptocarya corrugata is a tree that typically grows to a height of 35 m, its stems sometimes buttressed, and its twigs more or less fluted and densely covered with twisted brown hairs. Its leaves are egg-shaped to elliptic, 35–110 mm long and 20–55 mm wide on a petiole 6–18 mm long. The flowers are arranged in panicles usually shorter than the leaves, greenish-cream and more or less perfumed, the perianth tube 0.8–1.4 mm long and 1.3–1.7 mm wide. The tepals are 1.4–2.4 mm long and 0.8–1.4 mm wide. The outer anthers are 0.6–0.8 mm long and 0.5–0.7 mm wide, the inner anthers 0.6–0.9 mm long and 0.4–0.5 mm wide and hairy. Flowering occurs from November to January, and the fruit is a black to bluish-black drupe 15–22 mm long and 22–34 mm wide.

Taxonomy
Cryptocarya corrugata was first described in 1926 by Cyril Tenison White and William Douglas Francis in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland from specimens collected by Francis in the Eungella Range in 1922.

Distribution and habitat
Corduroy laurel grows in mountain rainforests at altitudes from 350 to 1200 m from Cooktown to Eungella in north-east and central-eastern Queensland.

Ecology
The fruit is eaten by cassowaries and fruit pigeons.