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Beach Sheoak
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Beach Sheoak

Casuarina equisetifolia L.

LC Least Concern

Names

EnglishBeach Sheoak
Dutch—
Spanish—
Chinese木麻黄
Scientific nameCasuarina equisetifolia L.

About this species

Casuarina equisetifolia, commonly known as coastal she-oak, horsetail she-oak, ironwood, beach sheoak, beach casuarina, whistling tree or Australian pine is a species of flowering plant in the family Casuarinaceae and is native to the Western Pacific, Australia, New Guinea, Southeast Asia and India. It is a small to medium-sized, monoecious tree with scaly or furrowed bark on older specimens, drooping branchlets, the leaves reduced to scales in whorls of 7 or 8, the fruit 10–24 mm (0.4–0.9 in) long containing winged seeds (samaras) 6–8 mm (0.2–0.3 in) long.

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Classification

KingdomPlantae
PhylumTracheophyta
ClassMagnoliopsida
OrderFagales
FamilyCasuarinaceae
GenusCasuarina

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