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Drooping sheoak
Allocasuarina verticillata

About
Allocasuarina verticillata, commonly known as drooping sheoak, is a species of flowering plant in the family Casuarinaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a small dioecious tree that has drooping branchlets up to 400 mm (16 in) long, the leaves reduced to scales in whorls of nine to thirteen, the mature fruiting cones 20–50 mm (0.8–2 in) long containing winged seeds (samaras) 7–12 mm (0.3–0.5 in) long.
- Family
- Casuarinaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Allocasuarina verticillata
- Slug
- allocasuarina-verticillata
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Casuarinaceae
- Genus
- Allocasuarina
- Species
- verticillata
- Wikidata QID
- Q4732995
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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