Angophora Costata

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Common Name:

SMOOTH BARKED APPLE

PLEASE NOTE: Orders are by full tray only. Each tray contains 40 plants. When ordering, please choose how many trays you would like.

WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE:

1. Spreading rounded shrub growing 1–4 m high and wide

2. Branchlets yellow or reddish, minutely hairy

3. ‘Leaves’ grey-green, 1.5–5 cm long, 3–7 mm wide, radiating around branchlets, variable in shape

4. Bright golden ball flowers in heavy clusters at branch ends; flower stalks stout, with minute golden hairs; flowering April to October

5. Seed pods straight or curved, 5–10 cm long, 4–9 mm wide, dark brown at maturity, may have a whitish bloom
A large, wide, spreading tree growing to a height of between 15 and 25 m.
The trunk is often gnarled and crooked with a pink to pale grey, sometimes rusty-stained bark.
The timber is rather brittle. The old bark is shed in spring in large flakes with the new salmon-pink bark turning to pale grey before the next shedding.
The leaves are dark green, lance-shaped, 6-16 cm long and 2-3 cm wide.
Flowers are white and very showy, being produced in large bunches on terminal corymbs or short panicles; flowing time is typically December or January.
The seed capsules are goblet shaped, 2 cm long and as wide, often with fairly prominent ribs.

WHERE IT GROWS & WHY:

Occurs naturally on the sandy soils and stony ridges.
Can also do well in a variety of situations, from well-drained rocky soils to wetter conditions.
Some trees suffer minor frost damage to new tips during winter, and caterpillars and the native leaf-cutting bee cause minor damage to the foliage.

MANAGEMENT/SIGNIFICANCE:

Should not be planted so that they will overhang dwellings due to shedding limbs.

Image Source: Fagg, M. via Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG)

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