Allocasuarina Verticillata

Price:

$110.00 (including GST)

Common Name:

DROOPING SHE OAK

PLEASE NOTE: Orders are by full tray only. Each tray contains 40 plants. When ordering, please choose how many trays you would like.

WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE:

1. Spreading rounded shrub growing 1–4 m high and wide

2. Branchlets yellow or reddish, minutely hairy

3. ‘Leaves’ grey-green, 1.5–5 cm long, 3–7 mm wide, radiating around branchlets, variable in shape

4. Bright golden ball flowers in heavy clusters at branch ends; flower stalks stout, with minute golden hairs; flowering April to October

5. Seed pods straight or curved, 5–10 cm long, 4–9 mm wide, dark brown at maturity, may have a whitish bloom
A medium sized bushy tree that has a rounded head.
It has weeping dark green branchlets that produce brown male flowers from winter to early spring.
When young can look rather sparse and scraggly but this changes with age.
They sound like the ocean when the wind blows through their leaves.

WHERE IT GROWS & WHY:

MANAGEMENT/SIGNIFICANCE:

Image Source: Fagg, M. via Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG)

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