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Casuarina equisetifolia, commonly known as coastal she-oak, horsetail she-oak, [3] ironwood, [4] beach sheoak, beach casuarina, whistling tree [5] or Australian pine [6] is a species of flowering plant in the family Casuarinaceae and is native to Australia, New Guinea, Southeast Asia and India.
The genus Casuarina was first formally described in 1759 by Carl Linnaeus in Amoenitates Academicae and the first species he described (the type species) was Casuarina equisetifolia. [ 2 ] [ 18 ] The generic name is derived from the Malay word for the cassowary , kasuari , alluding to the similarities between the bird's feathers and the plant's ...
In Australia, the most widely used common name for Casuarinaceae species is sheoak or she-oak (a comparison of the timber quality with English oak). Other common names in Australia include ironwood, bull-oak or buloke, beefwood, [8] or cassowary tree. [9] The Shire of Buloke in Victoria, Australia, is named after the species Allocasuarina ...
Casuarina equisetifolia, a coastal species This page was last edited on 11 December 2017, at 16:27 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Casuarinaceae: casuarina family; Casuarina: beefwoods; Casuarina cunninghamiana: Cunningham beefwood Casuarinaceae (casuarina family) Casuarina equisetifolia: Australian beefwood; horsetail casuarina Casuarinaceae (casuarina family) Casuarina glauca: Brazilian beefwood Casuarinaceae (casuarina family) Celastraceae: bittersweet family
In 1989, Lawrie Johnson and Alex George described subsp. miodon in the Flora of Australia, and the name, and that of the autonym are accepted by the Australian Plant Census: Casuarina cunninghamiana Miq. subsp. cunninghamiana [ 6 ] is a tree to 15–35 m (49–115 ft), the articles 6–9 mm (0.24–0.35 in) long with 8 to 10 teeth.
Casuarina equisetifolia, native to Australia, SE Asia and Oceania Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Whistling tree .
The other common she-oak species in Malaysia is Casuarina equisetifolia known as Rhu laut - laut in Malaysian means "sea" and typically it grows along the seashore on sandy substrates. In Sarawak it is a protected species (5).