Family: Casuarinaceae
Plant: A tree up to 20m high with drooping branchlets.
Flowers: Male flowers rusty red, tiny and in terminal spikes 1-4cm long at ends of branchlets. The female flowers red and comprised of filament like stigmas crowded into a terminal heads. The male and female flowers on separate trees.
Flowering: May-August.
Leaves: Leaves reduced to 12-20 leaf-teeth along thin, drooping branchlets 0.9-1.2mm diameter
Fruit: Globular to cylindrical cone1-1.5cm diameter and 1-2cm long with flattened apex.
Habitat: Near water in estuaries, coastal lagoons and brackish streams.
Features: Number of leaf teeth (12-20) and cones with flattened apex.
Name:
Casuarina From the Malay word Kasuari referring to the leaves that suggest the drooping feathers of the Cassowary.
glauca From Latin glaucus = bluish-green (referring to the colour of its foliage).
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Type |
Tree |
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Flowers |
Form |
Irregular, Cluster |
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Colour(s) |
Red |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
Few |
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Flowering Month |
5, 6, 7, 8 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Cone |
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Colour |
Brown |
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Other Features |
Woody |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Absent/Reduced |
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Type |
- |
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Shape |
- |
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Length |
Tiny |
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Margins |
- |
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Attachment |
- |
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Other Features |
- |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Fresh Water Habitat, Beach strand |
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