Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus angophoroides
Common name
Apple-topped gum, Apple-topped box, Apple box
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Wet forest, and along streams, on fertile loamy soils. South of Ulladulla. Coast, ranges, and tablelands.
Notes
Tree to 40 m tall. Bark rough on the trunk and larger branches, fibrous, often tessellated ('box'), grey, or mottled with grey and white patches. Horizontal black scars sometimes present on the trunk. Smooth bark shedding in short ribbons. Juvenile stems rounded or square in cross section, green or glaucous, warty. Juvenile leaves opposite each other for many pairs, 1.7-7 cm long, 15-55 mm wide, becoming slightly offset from each other, stalkless, greenish above and paler, slightly glaucous below, margins finely scalloped. Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 8-25 cm long, 14-43 mm wide, glossy to dull, green, upper surface a different colour from lower surface, rarely the same colour on both sides. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Flower clusters 7-flowered. Mature flower buds 6-9 mm long, caps as long as the base. Flowers Summer-Autumn. Gumnuts 5-9 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have valves that protrude strongly.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~angophoroides (accessed 22 January, 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_amplifolia_subsp._amplifolia.htm (accessed 22 January, 2021)
This identification key and fact sheets are available as a free mobile application:
