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Drooping She-oak
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| Drooping She-oak photos | Family: Sheoak (Casuarinaceae) |
| Scientific Name: | Allocasuarina verticillata (syn. Casuarina stricta) |  Drooping She-oak Photo: A J Brown |
Other Common Name: | Coast She-oak | |
Status: | Native to South Australia, New South Wales, Tasmania and Victoria. | |
Plant Description: | A small tree to 10 m height with separate male and female individuals. Bark is dark grey, hard and fissured. Crown of the tree is grey-green and rounded with drooping branchlets. Ultimate branchlets are about 0.8 thick, to 40 cm long with acutely keeled ribs and teeth 9-13 in whorls (rings) 2-3 cm apart. Male flowers are yellowish-brown. Cones on female trees are relatively large (2-3 cm wide), barrel shaped and with sharply mucronate valves. | |
Habitat: | Widespread on coastal cliffs and secondary dunes where subject to salt-spray. Also found on lava-plains and volcanic hills of western Victoria and on drier rocky situations of the central highlands but not usually on saline soils. | |
Comments: | Much of Drooping She-oak’s inland environments have been modified or destroyed by farming but it is still common along the coastline. | |
 Bark of Drooping She-oak Photo: A J Brown |  Drooping She-oak branchlets Photo: A J Brown |
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 Ribs and teeth on Drooping She-oak branchlets Photo: A J Brown |
