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Drooping She-oak

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Scientific Name:Allocasuarina verticillata (syn. Casuarina stricta)
Drooping She Oak plant
Drooping She-oak
Photo: A J Brown

Other Common Name:
Coast She-oak

Status:
Native to South Australia, New South Wales, Tasmania and Victoria.

Plant Description:
A small tree to 10 m height with separate male and female individuals. Bark is dark grey, hard and fissured. Crown of the tree is grey-green and rounded with drooping branchlets. Ultimate branchlets are about 0.8 thick, to 40 cm long with acutely keeled ribs and teeth 9-13 in whorls (rings) 2-3 cm apart.

Male flowers are yellowish-brown. Cones on female trees are relatively large (2-3 cm wide), barrel shaped and with sharply mucronate valves.

Habitat:
Widespread on coastal cliffs and secondary dunes where subject to salt-spray. Also found on lava-plains and volcanic hills of western Victoria and on drier rocky situations of the central highlands but not usually on saline soils.

Comments:
Much of Drooping She-oak’s inland environments have been modified or destroyed by farming but it is still common along the coastline.

Drooping She-oak Photos

Drooping She Oak bark
Bark of Drooping She-oak
Photo: A J Brown
Drooping She Oak branchlets
Drooping She-oak branchlets
Photo: A J Brown

Drooping She Oak cones
Drooping She-oak cones
Photo: A J Brown

Mature cones of Drooping She Oak
Mature cones of Drooping She-oak
Photo: A J Brown

Drooping She Oak ribs
Ribs and teeth on Drooping She-oak branchlets
Photo: A J Brown
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