Casuarina Glauca

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Common Name:

SWAMP 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 fast growing, single trunked upright tree with an open conical habit.
It has thick needle like foliage (cladobes) with reddish-brown terminal flower spikes.

WHERE IT GROWS & WHY:

MANAGEMENT/SIGNIFICANCE:

Makes a good windbreak tree.
Nitrogen 'fixing' and is very good for remediating areas affected by salinity and seasonal waterlogging.
Makes excellent firewood that burns very evenly.

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

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