| Description | Angophora costata
The Smooth Barked Apple is an attractive Australian native tree, best loved for its peeling salmon pink to pale grey bark. Foliage is curved and waxy with older green leaves contrasting with red new growth on twisted upper branches. Small white flowers are borne in mass in Spring, leading to small gum nuts that are not problematic for lawnmowers.
The Rose Gum/Smooth Barked Apple is a stately shade tree, commonly planted in parks, avenues and used in mass plantings. Very useful for sandy, dry areas. | Rosa hybrid tea
Charles De Gaulle produces stunning highly fragrant blooms of lilac purple petals on upright stems. Perfect for mass planting, cut flowers, rose & cottage gardens. Plant in full sun to part shade with well drained soil. Available in more variations. | |
| Content | | Roses are easily one of the most popular and widely cultivated groups of flowering plants. Numerous different cultivars have been produced over the last twu centuries, although roses have been grown for millennia before their popularity bloomed. Renowned for their flowers and beauty, they are also loved for other reasons such as their fruit. The rose hip can be made into an old fashioned jam. Roses range in size and variety from your standard and bush roses to climbers and weeping varieties. Amongst all their beautiful colours, varieties and fragrances there is bound to be the perfect rose out there for your garden. For more information on selecting and growing roses, visit our Rose Factsheet. | |
| Additional information |
| botanical name |
Angophora costata
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| height x width |
10-15m x 8m
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| features |
The trunk is often gnarled and crooked with a pink to pale grey, showy white flowers in summer, attractive bronze new growth, contorted branches
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| conditions |
Full sun in well drained soil, likes sandy soil
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| landscape use |
Specimen tree, shade tree, parks,
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