Casuarina equisetifolia

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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Casuarina equisetifolia, Linn. Fig. 837. Tree, becoming 150 ft. high in favorable climates, and a most rapid grower: branches drooping, pale green, simple, terete or nearly so, the internodes very short (less than ¼in.); sheath-teeth 7 (6-8) lanceolate and appressed: staminate cone nearly terete; pistillate cone short-peduncled, ellipsoidal, about ½-in. diam. Widely distributed in the farther Old World tropics, and the best-known species in this country (in S. Fla. and Calif, and south). Gn. M. 7:21. L.B.C. 7:607.—The wood is valuable for many purposes. The casuarinas are known as "oak" in Austral. CH


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