Angophora Flower. Trees with smooth bark shedding in small scales pink grey or cream. An angophora is a native tree a close relative to the corymbia and the eucalyptus except an angophora has leaves on its stem that are exactly opposite each other.
Angophora hispida grows as a mallee or as a tree to about 7 m 25 ft in height. Angophora is a genus of nine species of trees and shrubs in the myrtle family myrtaceae and is endemic to eastern australia. Juvenile leaves opposite ovate or elliptic to 13 cm long 6 5 cm wide.
Bark persistent grey fibrous flaky.
Apni eucalyptus hispida sm brooker apni metrosideros hispida sm. The trunk is often gnarled and crooked with fibrous grey bark. Hispida s small size especially when compared to its angophora and eucalyptus relatives leads to it being known by the common name dwarf apple. They differ from other eucalypts in having juvenile and adult leaves arranged in opposite pairs sepals reduced to projections on the edge of the floral cup four or five overlapping more or less round petals and a papery or thin woody often strongly ribbed capsule.
