Rough barked apple

Angophora floribunda is a medium-sized to large evergreen tree of the Myrtaceae family, typically 15 to 25 metres tall, with a stout, often crooked trunk and a broad, spreading, irregular crown. The persistent rough bark covers the entire trunk and main branches, is grey to brown, fibrous and longitudinally fissured, and gives the tree its 'rough-barked apple' name. The opposite, simple leaves are lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, 6 to 15 centimetres long and 1 to 2.5 centimetres wide, with an entire margin, an acute to acuminate apex, a slightly oblique tapering base and a thin, glossy green texture, contrasting with the alternate adult leaves of related Eucalyptus species. In late spring and summer the tree produces conspicuous broad, terminal, branched panicles of fragrant creamy-white flowers about 1.5 to 2 centimetres across, each with numerous spreading stamens and free spreading sepals and petals rather than an operculum. The fruit is a ribbed, urn-shaped to bell-shaped woody capsule 6 to 10 millimetres long with five conspicuous longitudinal ridges. Native to open woodlands, river flats and grassy forests of eastern Australia from Queensland to Victoria.