Casuarina glauca |
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Brazilian beefwood, gray she-oak, scaly-bark beefwood, suckering Australian-pine, swamp she-oak |
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Habit | Trees, 8-20 m, frequently producing root suckers. |
Bark | gray-brown, finely fissured and scaly. |
Branchlets | drooping; segments 8-20 × 0.9-1.2 mm, glabrous, occasionally waxy; longitudinal ridges flat to slightly rounded-convex; teeth usually marcescent, 12-17, erect, 0.6-0.9 mm. |
Flowers | unisexual, staminate and pistillate on different plants. |
Infructescences | rust-colored to white-pubescent, becoming glabrous; peduncles 3-12 mm; infructescence body 9-18 × 7-9 mm; bracteoles broadly acute. |
Young | permanent shoots with long-recurved teeth. |
Staminate | spikes 1.2-4 cm, 7-10 whorls per cm; anthers ca. 0.8 mm. |
Samaras | 3.5-5 mm. |
Casuarina glauca |
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Habitat | Commonly near brackish water |
Elevation | 0-50 m (0-200 ft) |
Distribution |
FL; native; e coast Australia [Introduced in North America] |
Discussion | Commonly near brackish water; 0-50 m; introduced; Fla.; native, e coast Australia. Casuarina glauca is widely cultivated in many parts of the world. Pistillate trees are very infrequent in the flora. It is now considered a pest species in Florida because of root suckering. Its identification may be confused by the practice of some Florida nurserymen of grafting scions of Casuarina glauca onto rootstocks from the other two species. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 3. |
Parent taxa | Casuarinaceae > Casuarina |
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Name authority | Sieber ex Sprengel: Syst. Veg. 3: 803. (1826) |
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