A favourite thing growing in our garden is the angophora tree.
Angophora costata to be exact, or the smooth barked apple.
The angophora costata tree does not grow apples though.
What I find the most startling about this tree, is not its size, or the masses of cream coloured spring blooms, not even the way its roots curl around the sandstone in which it commonly grows...but the colour of its bark.
I know no other tree that sheds its bark the way the angophora does, to reveal all the shades of green, or brown, or terracotta, or grey, or blue, I know no other tree that colours its bark each day depending on the season, or the weather, or the time of day.
No. Other. Tree.
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