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Kalmia latifolia, the mountain laurel, [3] calico-bush, [3] or spoonwood, [3] is a flowering plant and one of the 10 species in the genus of Kalmia belonging to the heath(er) family Ericaceae. It is native to the eastern United States. Its range stretches from southern Maine to northern Florida, and west to Indiana and Louisiana.
Cryptocarya nova-anglica, commonly known as mountain laurel, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Lauraceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is a tree with lance-shaped leaves, creamy green flowers, and elliptic to spherical to pear-shaped black drupes .
Mountain laurel blooms showing the conjoined petals. The leaves are 2–12 cm long and simple lanceolate. The flowers are white, pink or purple, in corymbs of 10–50, reminiscent of Rhododendron flowers but flatter, with a star-like calyx of five conjoined petals; each flower is 1–3 cm diameter.
Unlike other "bay laurels" of the genus Laurus, Umbellularia has perfect flowers (male and female parts in the same flower). [ 6 ] The fruit , also known as "California bay nut", is a round and green berry 2–2.5 cm long and 2 cm broad, lightly spotted with yellow, maturing purple.
Mountain Laurel or mountain laurel may refer to: Calia secundiflora, Texas mountain laurel; Cryptocarya nova-anglica from eastern Australia; Kalmia latifolia, from ...
The flowers are followed by small, hard green fruits, which, anatomically, share many features with that of an apple, or pear. The ripe fruit is about a third of an inch long, containing mealy ...
The native flora of the United States has provided the world with a large number of horticultural and agricultural plants, mostly ornamentals, such as flowering dogwood, redbud, mountain laurel, bald cypress, southern magnolia, and black locust, all now cultivated in temperate regions worldwide, but also various food plants such as blueberries ...
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