Casuarinaceae

• Casuarina cunninghamiana
• Casuarina cunninghamiana
• Casuarina equisetifolia
• Casuarina glauca

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• Common Name: Ironwood, Horsetail She-oak, Coastal She-oak
• Family: Casuarinaceae R. Br.

• Country of Origin: Indonesia and Malaysia to India and Sri Lanka and to n & ne Australia
• Habitat:

• Description: Tall evergreen tree to 30 m, the branches often drooping, sulcate, green, with 6–8 scalelike leaves. Internodes 5–7.5 mm long on the branchlets, only 2.5 mm on main shoots. Main shoots minutely hairy, with small recurved scales ca 2.5 mm long, usually 8 in a whorl. Male spikes usually numerous, terminating the branches on which the female "cones" are borne lower down, cylindric to fusiform 12–24 mm long. Female "cones" subglobose to ellipsoid, 10–20 mm in diameter. Seeds ca 660,000–990,000/kg.

  Said to be indigenous from Indonesia and Malaysia to India and Sri Lanka and to north and northeast Australia, the Australian Pine is now one of the most common trees on frost-free beaches anywhere in the world.

  Ranging from Subtropical Thorn Woodland to Wet through Tropical Thorn to Wet Forest Life Zone

  Nitrogen fixing actinorhizal tree