Family: Myrtaceae
Plant: A tree up to 30m high with a smooth pinkish-grey bark and gnarled, twisted branches.
Buds: Ovoid or globose, ribbed, 5-7mm long and 5-6mm diameter.
Flowers: Terminal panicles of cream flowers with massed stamens surrounding a smooth disc.
Flowering: November-January.
Fruit: An ovoid capsule, strongly ribbed and 1-1.5cm long and 1-1.5cm diameter with a depressed disc.
Leaves: Narrow lanceolate to falcate 9-17cm long, opposite, underside paler than upper surface and with close regular lateral veins. The young leaves are ovate or elliptic.
Bark: A smooth, mottled and dimpled surface. It sheds its bark annually in early summer – its surface being pinkish-brown, cream or even a dull orange after being shed, turning pinkish-grey in winter.
Habitat: Common tree on sandstone in both wet-and dry-sclerophyll forest. A mallee form grows on heathland.
Features: Smooth pinkish-grey bark that is shed annually. Ribbed, cup-shaped fruit. Opposite leaves. Gnarled and twisted habit.
Name:
Angophora From Greek angos = a closed vessel or vase and phero = ribbed (referring to its cup-shaped ribbed fruit).
costata From Latin costatus = ribbed (referring to its fruit).
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Flowers |
Form |
Regular, Cluster |
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Colour(s) |
Cream |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
- |
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Flowering Month |
1, 11, 12 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Capsule |
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Colour |
Brown |
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Other Features |
Woody, Hard, Ribbed |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Opposite |
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Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
Oval, Sickle |
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Length |
Medium, Long |
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Margins |
Entire |
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Attachment |
Stalked |
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Other Features |
Aromatic, Discolorous |
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Bark |
Smooth |
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Habitat |
Wet sclerophyll forest, |
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Dry sclerophyll forest, Heathland |
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