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Allocasuarina verticillata, commonly known as drooping sheoak, [3] is a species of flowering plant in the family Casuarinaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a small dioecious tree that has drooping branchlets up to 400 mm (16 in) long, the leaves reduced to scales in whorls of nine to thirteen, the mature fruiting cones 20–50 mm (0.8–2 in) long containing winged seeds 7 ...
Allocasuarina, commonly known as sheoak [4] or she-oak, [5] is a genus of flowering plants in the family Casuarinaceae and is endemic to Australia. Plants in the genus Allocasuarina are trees or shrubs with soft, pendulous, green branchlets, the leaves reduced to scale-like teeth.
Allocasuarina torulosa is slender, usually dioecious tree that typically grows to a height of 5–20 m (16–66 ft). Its branchlets are drooping, up to 140 mm (5.5 in) long, the leaves reduced to erect, scale-like teeth 0.3–0.8 mm (0.01–0.03 in) long, arranged in whorls of four or five around the branchlets.
Casuarina, also known as she-oak, Australian pine [3] [4] [5] and native pine, [6] is a genus of flowering plants in the family Casuarinaceae, and is native to Australia, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, islands of the western Pacific Ocean, and eastern Africa.
In Australia, the most widely used common name for Casuarinaceae species is sheoak or she-oak (a comparison of the timber quality with English oak). Other common names in Australia include ironwood, bull-oak or buloke, beefwood, [8] or cassowary tree. [9] The Shire of Buloke in Victoria, Australia, is named after the species Allocasuarina ...
Allocasuarina humilis is an erect or spreading, dioecious or monoecious shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.2–2 m (7.9 in – 6 ft 6.7 in). Its needle-like branchlets are more or less erect, up to 120 mm (4.7 in) long, the leaves reduced to scale-like teeth 0.4–0.5 mm (0.016–0.020 in) long, arranged in whorls of five to seven around the branchlets.
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Allocasuarina portuensis is a slender, dioecious shrub that typically grows to a height of 3–5 m (9.8–16.4 ft) and has smooth bark. Its branchlets are spreading to drooping, up to 270 mm (11 in) long, the leaves reduced to erect or slightly overlapping, spreading to curved backwards, scale-like teeth 0.7–1.1 mm (0.03–0.04 in) long, arranged in whorls of seven or eight around the ...