Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Angophora hispida

Buds, flowers, and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra

Gumnuts and leaves. Photographer Jackie Miles, Waterfall, Sydney

Tree. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Royal Botanic Gardens Mt Annan, Campbelltown

Common name

Dwarf Apple, Scrub Apple

Family

Myrtaceae

Where found

Woodland, heath, and shrubland. Coast and ranges north from Wollongong.

Notes

Tree or shrub to 8 m high. Bark rough on all but the smallest branches, fibrous-flaky, grey. Juvenile stems rounded in cross section, hairy. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, opposite each other. Juvenile leaves 10–14 cm long, 40–60 mm wide, hairless or hairy, green, bases stem-clasping, margins entire, tips pointed. Adult leaves 5–11.5 cm long, 20–60 mm wide, usually thick and rigid, surfaces slightly glossy and green to olive green, to dull and grey-green, surfaces different colours, bases stem-clasping, margins entire or occasionally finely scalloped, tips usually rounded, sometimes pointed. Flower clusters 3-7- flowered. Buds and gumnuts ribbed. Mature buds 7-13 mm in diameter. Flowers with 5 petals 6–10 mm long. Petals white to creamy white with a green stripe down the back, yellow to lemon, or rarely pink. Stamens longer than the petals. Gumnuts 13–20 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have valves that are not very noticeable. Flowers spring-autumn.

PlantNET description:  https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Angophora~hispida (accessed 3 January, 2021)

EUCLID description:  https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/angophora_hispida.htm (accessed 17 April 2021)