Angophora hispida, or the Dwarf Apple is a small tree or large native shrub with an open, spreading and twisting growth habit.
New growth both leaves and new branchlets are red or purple and covered with tiny reddish hairs. As the leaves mature they lose the hairs and turn a dull, grey-green.
Clusters of large white/cream fluffy (polystemonous) flowers are borne at the ends of the branches in summer, eventually leaving the ribbed capsules (gumnuts) behind.
In cultivation, this tree can be trimmed to maintain a shrubby habit though they grow naturally to be rather straggly, albeit with very attractive new growth.
Good for coastal plantings and is sometimes seen in dune stabilisation.