Cryptocarya vulgaris commonly known as northern laurel,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Lauraceae and is endemic to north Queensland.

It is a tree with elliptic to oblong or lance-shaped leaves, creamy yellow and pale green, perfumed flowers, and spherical black drupes.

The flowers are creamy yellow, pale green and perfumed, and arranged in panicles longer than the leaves.

[3][4] Cryptocarya vulgaris was first formally described in 1989 by Bernard Hyland in Australian Systematic Botany from specimens collected in the Little Pine Logging Area in 1979.

[6] This species of Cryptocarya grows in rainforest at altitudes from sea level to 850 m (2,790 ft) from the Iron Range on Cape York Peninsula to Yeppoon in central eastern Queensland.