Tree to 30 m with pink or pinkish grey smooth bark. Leaves very like those of some Eucalyptus species, narrowly lanceolate or elliptic to narrowly ovate, (4–)8–19 cm long, (0.6–)1.2–3.5 cm wide, acute at the apex, attenuate at the base, glabrous. Flowers in 3-flowered umbels with axes covered with stiff capitate hairs or ± glabrous. Calyx lobes 5, up to 3 mm long, similarly hairy. Petals white, ± round, ± 4 mm diameter. Fruits campanulate or ovoid, woody, 1–1.7 cm long and wide, prominently ribbed, glabrous to densely hairy.
Notes
Angophora costata ( Gaertn .) Britten has been grown in Kenya (Nairobi Arboretum, 4 Dec. 1964, Noronha in E.A. 13058, also at Kaptagat and Londiani).I have a that A. subvelutina F. Muell. has also been cultivated in Nairobi.