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Angophora costata - Smooth Barked Apple
11 January 2012
Botanical Name: Angophora costata
Common Name: Smooth Barked Apple
A favourite Australian native tree of mine usually found on sandstone ridges and open forest is the Angophora costata. At this time of year it’s at its best when there is new bright green growth contrasting with its rusty pink freshly peeled trunk, best viewed with a beautiful sunny blue sky behind or with the trunk catching the rays from a setting sun. The rest of the year is bark is a off white to a light pink in colour. The Angophora costata has a straggly habit and form which adds to its unusual beauty more so that other gum trees. The bark is smooth but can have knobbly areas and wrinkles under branch connections to the trunk.
The Angophora can be great for large gardens as a unusual feature tree or a feature tree in a Australian native designed garden. It will reach approx 15 to 25m and has a similar spread. It is closely related to the Eucalyptus and Corymbia families and therefore generally known as one of the gum trees. The biggest difference to the other two is that the Angophora has opposite leaves while the other two have alternate leaves.
References and additional info.
http://www.anbg.gov.au/gnp/gnp8/ango-cos.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angophora_costata
The peeling bark and pitted surface to left and approx form to the right.
A young Angophora next to some Pennisetum 'Rubrum'
Common Name: Smooth Barked Apple
A favourite Australian native tree of mine usually found on sandstone ridges and open forest is the Angophora costata. At this time of year it’s at its best when there is new bright green growth contrasting with its rusty pink freshly peeled trunk, best viewed with a beautiful sunny blue sky behind or with the trunk catching the rays from a setting sun. The rest of the year is bark is a off white to a light pink in colour. The Angophora costata has a straggly habit and form which adds to its unusual beauty more so that other gum trees. The bark is smooth but can have knobbly areas and wrinkles under branch connections to the trunk.
The Angophora can be great for large gardens as a unusual feature tree or a feature tree in a Australian native designed garden. It will reach approx 15 to 25m and has a similar spread. It is closely related to the Eucalyptus and Corymbia families and therefore generally known as one of the gum trees. The biggest difference to the other two is that the Angophora has opposite leaves while the other two have alternate leaves.
References and additional info.
http://www.anbg.gov.au/gnp/gnp8/ango-cos.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angophora_costata
The peeling bark and pitted surface to left and approx form to the right.
A young Angophora next to some Pennisetum 'Rubrum'
