Technical information

Height: 10-20m, Width: 8-10m

Habit & Growth rate: Medium sized tree with twisting branches and fairly open crown. Suitable for parks, large gardens and broad roadside plantings. Angophora costata is adaptable to a range of sites including full on coastal sites.Will with stand poor quality and sandy soils but will not tolerate water logging.

Foliage: Angophora costata displays attractive, smooth grey, bark that sheds to expose pink-orange coloured bark in late winter. Flower buds are distinctive with little pointy ribs, which produce masses of creamy-white flowers from spring to summer.

This easily grown tree only has a few pests of which none are problematic. New growth can be sensitive to frost damage, and small 18 litre trees under a metre can be severely affected by frosts. At Mt William Advanced Tree Nursery we spray all Angophora costata with Seasol® which has the effect of hardening plant cells and minimizing frost damage.

The two features which make them readily distinguishable from Eucalyptus are the scarcely aromatic leaves and the mature leaves are mostly opposite.

Comments:

All plant dimensions are estimates only and ultimate size and growth rates will depend on growing conditions, particularly when used in some urban environments. All estimates are based around a 20-year time frame. With maturity most species will grow larger.