Casuarina Cunninghamiana

Price:

$110.00 (including GST)

Common Name:

RIVER 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 large tree growing up to 20 metres high and a spread of up to 10 metres.
Flowers are a reddish brown which form into a small round cone about 1cm in diameter.

WHERE IT GROWS & WHY:

Grows well in subcoastal areas as well as inland and adapts well to windy and exposed sites.
Frost tolerant.

MANAGEMENT/SIGNIFICANCE:

Image Source: McWhirter, A via Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG)

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