Casuarina glauca, commonly known as swamp oak, is a species of flowering plant that is endemic to eastern Australia. It is also known as swamp buloke, swamp she-oak, marsh sheoak or grey she-oak, and is called guman by the Gadigal people in the Dharug language. It is a dioecious tree that often forms root suckers and has fissured and scaly bark, spreading or drooping branchlets, the leaves reduced to scales in whorls of 12 to 20, the fruit 9–18 mm (0.35–0.71 in) long containing winged seeds (samaras) 3.5–5.0 mm (0.14–0.20 in) long.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Swamp sheoak being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Casuarina cristata
- Casuarina collina
- Casuarina cunninghamiana
- Allocasuarina littoralis
- Casuarina obesa
- Allocasuarina verticillata
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Fagales
- Family
- Casuarinaceae
- Genus
- Casuarina
- Species
- Casuarina glauca
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