Angophora bakeri, known as the narrow-leaved or small-leaved apple, is a common woodland and forest shrub or tree of eastern Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. It grows between two and ten metres tall on dry sandy soils. Named in honour of Richard Thomas Baker

Richard Thomas Baker

Richard Thomas Baker was an Australian economic 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 Colkett...

. Leaves are narrow lanceolate in shape, 6 to 10 cm long and 0.5 to 1 cm wide.

Recently, genetic work has been published showing Angophora to be more closely related to Eucalyptus than Corymbia

Corymbia

Corymbia is a genus of about 113 species of tree that were classified as Eucalyptus species until the mid-1990s. It includes the bloodwoods, ghost gums and spotted gums. The bloodwoods had been recognised as a distinct group within the large and diverse Eucalyptus genus since 1867...

, and the name Eucalyptus angustata has been proposed for this species if it were to be placed in the eucalypt genus.