Red gums rising

Known commonly as Sydney red gum, smooth-barked apple and also rusty gum, these beautiful trees have a primarily coastal occurrence here in New South Wales.

Typically found on sandstone and sandy areas in dry sclerophyll woodlands and forests. The bark is smooth and red-salmon to brown-grey-purple. They have an annual shedding process where large amounts of thin plates are shed. Old trees typically have many dimples as seen here, contorted branches and large bowl-like swellings (hence the reference to 'apple' in one of the common names).

Angophora is one of three similar genera that are commonly referred to as 'eucalypts', the others being Corymbia and Eucalyptus.

Growing to 30 m/98 feet in height.