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)

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)

Similar species:

Use code:
LEA, SEED

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