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Compass bush
Allocasuarina pinaster
About
Allocasuarina pinaster, commonly known as compass bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Casuarinaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a prickly, dioecious shrub resembling a pine tree and that has its leaves reduced to scales in whorls of four, the mature fruiting cones 14–25 mm (0.55–0.98 in) long, containing winged seeds 10–11 mm (0.39–0.43 in) long.
- Family
- Casuarinaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Allocasuarina pinaster
- Slug
- allocasuarina-pinaster
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Casuarinaceae
- Genus
- Allocasuarina
- Species
- pinaster
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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