Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read about Casuarina at wiki.bugwood.org
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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fagales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Casuarina equisetifolia ssp. equisetifolia
FAMILY
Casuarinaceae
LESS THAN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Casuarina equisetifolia
FAMILY
Casuarinaceae
COMMON NAME:
Australian-pine, Horsetail Casuarina, Beach She-oak, Coastal She-oak
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W.D. Brush / USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database pnd_caeq_010_lvp
Male flowers are borne in slender cylindrical spikes at the twig tips, per www.wiki.bugwood.org.
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W.D. Brush / USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database pnd_caeq_011_lvp
Female flowers occur in lateral heads on non-shedding branchlets, per www.wiki.bugwood.org.
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Dan Clark, USDI National Park Service, Bugwood.org bug_5281019
Month Unknown
Its very slender green twigs resemble pine needles, but it is not a pine, per Invasive Plants, Guide to Identification, Impacts and Control.
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Dan Clark, USDI National Park Service, Bugwood.org bug_5281021
Month Unknown
Peak bloom in April, a lesser one in September. Some fruit present any time, per Invasive Plants, Guide to Identification, Impacts and Control.
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Forest and Kim Starr, Starr Environmental, Bugwood.org bug_5285005
Month Unknown HI
Reported for AL in 2012, "definitely naturalized and suckering", per Weakley's Flora.
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Forest and Kim Starr, Starr Environmental, Bugwood.org bug_5285045
Month Unknown FL
Can grow 10' in a year, and in 5 years is producing thousands of seeds, per Invasive Plants, Guide to Identification, Impacts and Control.
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Leslie J. Mehrhoff, University of Connecticut, Bugwood.org bug_5446281
Month Unknown
Shallow-rooted and inhibiting the growth of native dune-stabilizing plants, per Invasive Plants, Guide to Identification, Impacts and Control.
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Christina Southwick, Dried Botanical ID, USDA APHIS ITP, Bugwood.org bug_5463792
Month Unknown
Half-inch fruits look like rounded cones and contain 70-90 light flat seeds, per Invasive Plants, Guide to Identification, Impacts and Control.