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Coolabah Apple

Angophora melanoxylon

Coolabah Apple
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au
Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
SC. Queensland to NC. New South Wales
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Angophora melanoxylon, commonly known as Coolabah apple, is a species of small to medium-sized tree that is endemic to eastern Australia. It has rough, fibrous bark on the trunk and branches, linear to narrow lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of three or seven, white or creamy white flowers and cup-shaped, cylindrical or barrel-shaped fruit.

Where it grows

Coolabah apple grows in deep, sandy soils and occurs sporadically in dry areas between Pilliga, Coolabah and Bourke in New South Wales and Cunnamulla, Augathella and St George in Queensland.

Other Angophora plants

Angophora bakeri subsp. crassifolia · Small Leaved Angophora · Rusty Gum · Sydney red gum · Angophora costata subsp. euryphylla · Angophora exul · Rough Barked Angophora · Dwarf Apple · Charmhaven Apple · Smooth Barked Apple · Angophora paludosa · Sandstone Rough Barked Apple

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Angophora melanoxylon by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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