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Allocasuarina verticillata (Lam.) L.A.S.Johnson

Drooping she-oak (en), Filao retombant (fr), Allocasuarina verticillé (fr), Casuarina raide (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Fagales > Casuarinaceae > Allocasuarina

Characteristics

Tree 4-10 m high. Branchlets drooping, to 40 cm long; articles 15-40 mm long, 0.7-1.5 mm diam., mostly densely pubescent in furrows; phyllichnia slightly rounded with a verruculose ridge; teeth 9-13, spreading, 0.7-1.2 mm long. Male spikes 3-12 cm long, 2.5-4 whorls per cm; anther 1.2-2.5 mm long. Cones cylindrical to barrel-shaped, sessile or on peduncle to 10 mm long; cone body 20-50 mm long, 17-30 mm diam.; bracts with long slender mucro; bracteoles broadly acute to acute, often pungent, protuberance fused with body or inconspicuous and only about as long as bracts. Samara 7-12 mm long, very dark brown.
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A small tree. It grows up to 8 m high. It has many branches. It has a weeping habit. Male and female flowers are on separate trees. Male flowers are brown and on the ends of small branches. The fruit are woody cones. They are 2.5-4.5 cm long and 2-3 cm across.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality dioecy
Pollination
Spread barochory
Mature width (meter) 3.0 - 6.0
Mature height (meter) 8.0 - 10.0
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Nitrogen fixer
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

It is a temperate plant. It grows on most types of soil. It can tolerate some waterlogging. It often grows on coastal cliffs. It suits hardiness zone 8-10. Arboretum Tasmania.
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Calcareous sands by the coast, inland on poor rocky soils and on sand overlying clay. Also found in usually grassy woodland, forming pure stands or amongst eucalypts.
Grows in usually grassy woodland, forming pure stands or amongst eucalypts; also on rocky sea-coasts and dry rocky hills and ridges inland.
Light 6-9
Soil humidity 2-7
Soil texture 2-5
Soil acidity 3-7
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 8-10

Usage

The soft young cones are eaten. Also the young shoots.
Uses animal food bee plant charcoal environmental use food fuel invertebrate food material wood
Edible fruits leaves seeds shoots
Therapeutic use -
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Cultivation

Plants are easily grown from seed.
Mode cuttings seedlings
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Minimum temperature (C°) -7
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Images

Leaf

Allocasuarina verticillata leaf picture by peter grouios (cc-by-sa)

Flower

Allocasuarina verticillata flower picture by jessamie yule (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Allocasuarina verticillata world distribution map, present in Australia, Brazil, Cameroon, Spain, Honduras, India, Morocco, Portugal, Tunisia, Taiwan, Province of China, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), and South Africa

Conservation status

Allocasuarina verticillata threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:909970-1
WFO ID wfo-0000526492
COL ID BVD6
BDTFX ID 3297
INPN ID 81554
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Casuarina excelsa Casuarina gunnii Casuarina macrocarpa Casuarina quadridentata Casuarina quadrivalvis Casuarina tortuosa Casuarina verticillata Casuarina stricta Casuarina quadrivalvis var. macrocarpa Casuarina quadrivalvis var. spectabilis Allocasuarina verticillata
WorldFloraDB 2024