Description

Allocasuarina cunninghamiana River She Oak Tree.

Casuarina cunninghamiana (river sheoak) is a large tree growing up to 20 metres high and a spread of up to 10 metres, flowers are a reddish brown which form into a small round cone about 1cm in diameter.

Casuarina cunninghamiana grows well in sub coastal areas as well as inland and adapts well to windy and exposed sites. The species is frost tolerant and extensively used as a windbreak and screening plant also nitrogen fixing for soils.