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| Botanical Name: |
Casuarina cunninghamiana
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| Sounds like: |
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| Common Name: |
River She-Oak; River Oak
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| Family Name: |
CASUARINACEAE
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| Genus: |
Casuarina
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| species |
cunninghamiana
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| Name Derivation |
G: an allusion to the leaves resembling the drooping feathers of the Cassowary; S: botanist from RBG, Sydney
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| Growth Habit: |
Evergreen tree
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| Dimensions: |
10-25m x 10-12m
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| Flower: |
Dioecious staminate flowers on slender spikes at the end of 1 yr. old branchlets, reddish. Pistillate flowers globular borne on mature wood in Feb-March.
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| Climate: |
Tolerates poor drainage, dry conditions, salty or brackish water, frost, waterlog and pollution
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| Fruit: |
A samara
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| Propagation: |
Seed
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| Horticulture Use: |
Shade tree, windbreaks, parks, stabilising river banks, pollution resistant, street tree if no powerlines, shelter tree. Valuable timber.
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| Culture & Maintenance: |
Suckers freely from roots if trunk damaged, no pruning necessary unless crotches develop, remove when young.
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| Foliage: |
Leaves minute, whorled, 6-8 leaf teeth, triangular decurrent scale at nodes
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