
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