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Casuarina equisetifolia

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(Coast She-oak, Beach She-oak)

FAMILY

Casuarinaceae

Species

Casuarina equisetifolia

Common name(s)

Coast she-oak, Beach she-oak

Flower colour; life form

Brownish; tree

Campus

Cairns, coastal

Description

Although this species is typically found along foreshores, it is often planted elsewhere. An attractive tree with pendulous drooping branchlets, leaves are greatly modified so that only the leaf-teeth are visible at the nodes or joints. The number of leaf-teeth varies between 6 and 8 per node. Cones are 2-3 cm long, 1.5-2 cm wide, seeds with small thin wings.

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