Casuarina

Casuarina
Casuarina equisetifolia, showing red female flowers and mature fruits
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fagales
Family: Casuarinaceae
Genus: Casuarina
L.[1]
Type species
Casuarina equisetifolia[2]
L.
Species

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Female cones of C. equisetifolia

Casuarina, also known as she-oak, Australian pine[3][4][5] and native pine,[6] is a genus of flowering plants in the family Casuarinaceae, and is native to Australia, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, islands of the western Pacific Ocean, and eastern Africa.

Plants in the genus Casuarina are monoecious or dioecious trees with green, pendulous, photosynthetic branchlets, the leaves reduced to small scales arranged in whorls around the branchlets, the male and female flowers arranged in separate spikes, the fruit a cone containing grey or yellowish-brown winged seeds.

  1. ^ "Casuarina". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
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  5. ^ "FIELD GUIDE TO IDENTIFY THE COMMON CASUARINA (AUSTRALIAN PINE) SPECIES IN FLORIDA". Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. University of Florida. Retrieved 2023-09-12.
  6. ^ "Casuarina glauca prostrate forms". Australian National Botanic Gardens. Australian National Biodiversity Research. Retrieved 2023-09-12.

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