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Casuarina Cristata

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Price:
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Common Name:
BELAH

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 handsome tall tree - 10-15 m high - from low-lying areas of plain country in Australia.  
  • Branchlets drooping in vigorous specimens, spreading in depauperate specimens. 
  • Articles somewhat waxy, occasionally sparsely hairy.

WHERE IT GROWS & WHY:

  • Grows well in heavy alkaline clay soils as well as well-drained loamy soils. 
  • Apparently, does not like deep sandy soils.  
  • Drought and frost resistant. 
  • Tolerates lime soils.

MANAGEMENT/SIGNIFICANCE:

  • Useful fast growing shelter tree for stock. 
  • Excellent for erosion control as it may sucker from the roots.  
  • Attractive large seed pods are used for decoration.

 

 

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