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River Oak

River Oak

Casuarina cunninghamiana

Family Casuarinaceae

Riparian Native

About

Lines the wetland areas and creek systems of Girraween National Park, forming a distinctive drooping-branched fringe along the park's granite-country waterways.

How to spot it

Drooping branchlets with scale-like leaves in whorls of 6-10, finely fissured greyish-brown bark, small cone-like fruiting structures 7-14mm.

Found in

  • Girraween National Park

Source: Wikipedia - Girraween National Park / Casuarina cunninghamiana

Photo: Ethel Aardvark (CC BY 3.0) via Wikimedia Commons