Angophora bakeri subsp. crassifolia
Angophora bakeri subsp. crassifolia is a small, shrubby tree or mallee that is endemic to a small area of New South Wales. It has rough bark on the trunk and branches, thick, rigid lance-shaped leaves, flower buds in groups of three or seven, white or creamy white flowers and cup-shaped to barrel-shaped fruit. It is similar to subspecies bakeri, differing in its smaller habit, thick leaves and slightly larger fruit.
Description
Angophora bakeri subsp. crassifolia is a small, shrubby tree or mallee that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has rough, fibrous bark on the trunk and branches. Young plants and coppice regrowth have more or less sessile elliptical to egg-shaped leaves that are long and wide and arranged in opposite pairs. Adult leaves are arranged in opposite pairs, a paler shade of green on the lower surface, thick, rigid, lance-shaped to curved, long and wide, tapering to a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged on the ends of branchlets in groups of three or seven on a peduncle long, the individual buds on pedicels long. Mature buds are spherical, long and wide, the petals white with a green keel, about long and wide. Flowering occurs from November to January and the fruit is a cup-shaped to barrel-shaped capsule long and wide with the valves enclosed in the fruit.Subspecies crassifolia differs from subsp. bakeri in its smaller habit, thicker, less flexible leaves and slightly larger fruit.