Angophora inopina

Angophora inopina, the Charmhaven apple, is a small evergreen tree of the Myrtaceae family endemic to a small area of the New South Wales Central Coast in Australia. It typically grows to about 8 metres tall and develops a woody lignotuber, from which several trunks often arise, giving plants a mallee-like form. The bark is greyish, fibrous and persistent over the trunk and larger branches. Young leaves are opposite, sessile, egg- to lance-shaped and 40 to 70 mm long, while mature leaves are also opposite (a feature distinguishing Angophora from Eucalyptus), petiolate, leathery, glossy green, lance-shaped and 45 to 120 mm long. Flowers open in December in clusters of three or seven on the ends of the branchlets, each bloom white to creamy white with numerous spreading stamens and no operculum. The fruit is a bristly, ribbed, cup-shaped woody capsule. The species grows in shrubby woodland on sandy soils over sandstone, mainly around Wyong and Lake Macquarie, and is listed as a threatened taxon.