Cryptocarya woodii, the Cape quince, is a shrub or small forest tree, native to southern and eastern Africa.

Its Latin name commemorates John Medley Wood, a botanist in Natal.

From mid summer the tree bears small, inconspicuous flowers.

When a leaf is viewed against light some minute secretory glands are visible in the vein polygons (areolae).

[3] The larvae of Papilio euphranor and Charaxes xiphares breed on the foliage of this tree.