ROUGH BARKED APPLE

Tree to 20m high with large crown and erect crooked branches. Bark is light brown, rough thick and fibrous with irregular cracks.

Leaves - 5-13 cm long, 12-15m wide, shortly stalked, the upper surface dull green, paler and with a yellow tint below.

Flowers - cream, borne on long stalks ni numerous groups of 2-7 at the ends of the branchlets.

Pods - similar in appearance to eucalypts but does not have a cap that falls off as flower opens.

Flowering late winter-summer