ngResource appends POST parameters to url

I have an angular service that looks like this. Here i am making a POST request.

.factory("Apples", function ($resource, HOST) {

            return $resource(
                HOST + "/apples",
                {},
                {
                    create: {
                        method: 'POST',
                        params: {
                            tree_id: '@treeId',
                            name: '@name',
                            color: '@color'
                        }
                    }
                }
            );
        })

The problem is that the above service makes a POST request and sends the params data as form data but also appends the params data to the url as query string. Can i avoid that?