Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Prunus laurocerasus
Common name
Cherry Laurel
Family
Rosaceae
Where found
Forest and roadsides. Blue Mountains. Southern Highlands and the ranges west from Robertson.
Notes
Introduced evergreen shrub or tree to about 8 m high. Fruit thinly fleshy, inedible. Young twigs pale green. Leaves can have the scent of almonds when rubbed. Leaves alternating up the stems, 7–18 cm long, 30–60 mm wide, leathery, shiny, hairless, lower surface usually with 1–3 small round glands near the stalk, margins almost entire or with a few small teeth, tips gradually tapering to a point. Flowers white, with 5 petals, about 10 mm in diameter. Flowers in 30–40 flowered slender clusters. Fruit black to purple, 10–12 mm long, approximately oval. Flowering: spring.
Family was Amygdalaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Prunus~laurocerasus (accessed 14 March 2021)
Wikipedia description: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prunus_laurocerasus (accessed 14 March 2021)
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