Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Angophora floribunda
Common name
Apple, Rough-barked apple
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Forest. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands.
Notes
Tree to 30 m tall. Bark rough on all but the smallest branches, fibrous, usually furrowed. Juvenile stems cylindrical, hairy to hairless. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, opposite each other. Juvenile leaves 4.5-12 cm long, 20-50 mm wide, green, hairless or hairy, bases stem-clasping to rounded, margins entire or rarely finely toothed, tips pointed. Adult leaves 4.5-15 cm long, 10-50 mm wide, glossy green to dull grey-green, margins entire, tips pointed. Flower clusters 3-7- flowered. Flowers with 4-5 petals, creamy white to white, with a green stripe down the back, each 2-4 mm long. Stamens white, filaments 5–7 mm long. Buds and gumnuts longitudinally ribbed. Mature buds 3-7 mm in diameter. Gumnuts 7-11 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have valves that are not very noticeable. Flowers Summer.
Intergrades with Angophora subvelutina are known.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Angophora~floribunda (accessed 3 January, 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/angophora_floribunda.htm (accessed 17 April 2021)
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