Mountain She-oak

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Common name:
Mountain She-oak, Drooping She-oak

Family name:
Casuarinaceae

Botanical name:
Allocasuarina verticillata (formerly Casuarina stricta)

Flowering/fruiting season:
Winter-spring

Location:
Dry stony ridges and low hills to 2500ft eg Red Hill, Tuggeranong, Tharwa (Burbidge & Gray, 1976:143)

Mountain She-oak, Drooping She-oak
Use:
Food
Leaves and young cones were chewed (raw) (Flood, 1980)
Notes:
Shrubs or small trees to 5m (Burbidge & Gray, 1976:143)

Language names:
dulwa : 'Oak' Monaro (Flood, 1980:359)

Horticulture :
Can be cultivated from seed; hardy in most situations (Wrigley & Fagg, 1998:498) 

 

Mountain She-oak