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''Eucalyptus angophoroides'', commonly known as the apple-topped box, apple box or apple gum, is a tree 
Image:Apple box bark.jpg, close up of the bark
Image:Apple box leaf and flowerbuds.jpg, leaf and flower buds
Image:Eucalyptus angophoroides apple top box.jpg, trunk
endemic
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to south-eastern Australia. It has rough, flaky or fibrous bark on its trunk and larger branches, lance-shaped adult leaves, white flowers and conical to hemispherical fruit.
Description
''Eucalyptus angophoroides'' grows to a height of with rough, flaky or fibrous bark on its trunk and larger branches and is usually mottled grey and white. The thinner branches sometimes have similar rough bark or smooth white or grey bark that is shed in short ribbons. The leaves on young plants are arranged in opposite pairs, broadly egg-shaped to heart-shaped or almost round, dull, dark green with a lighter shade on the lower side and lack a stalk. Adult leaves are arranged alternately, lance-shaped, long and wide on a petiole long. The two sides of the leaf are a different shade of green. The flowers are arranged in groups of seven, the groups on a slightly flattened peduncle long, the individual flowers on apedicel
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long. The mature flower buds are oval, long and wide, green to yellow with a conical or beaked operculum. Flowering occurs between January and March and the fruit is a woody, hemispherical or conical capsule long and wide on a pedicel long with four upward-pointing valves
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on the top of the fruit.
Taxonomy and naming
''Eucalyptus angophoroides'' was first formally described in 1901 byRichard Thomas Baker
Richard Thomas Baker (1 December 1854 – 14 July 1941) was an Australian economic Botany, botanist, museum curator and educator.
Early life
Baker was born in Woolwich, England, son of Richard Thomas Baker, a blacksmith, and his wife Sarah, née ...
who published the description in ''Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales
The Linnean Society of New South Wales promotes ''the Cultivation and Study of the Science of Natural History in all its Branches'' and was founded in Sydney, New South Wales ( Australia) in 1874 and incorporated in 1884.
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''. The tree has the appearance of an "apple tree" ('' Angophora'') and had previously been known as "apple-top box" and was accordingly given the specific epithet ''angophoroides''.
Distribution and habitat
Apple-top box grows in valleys and on hillsides, often near the edge of swamps, and in open forest and wet forest, usually in fertile soils. It is found inNew South Wales
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south from Towrang to the northern foothills of the Strzelecki Ranges
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south of Trafalgar, Victoria
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References
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