Thread: A "New" Casuarina wood

I agree with Ian.

it is definitely a native WA species from the SW corner of that state. It gets its common name from its association with Granite and granitic soil/ Here is a reference ... Allocasuarina huegeliana (Miq.) L.A.S.Johnson: FloraBase: Flora of Western Australia

Originally Posted by GraemeCook

Naming a tree should be simple. Where's Euge?

Easy, find some obscure characteristics of the specimen and translate it into latin, add a mate's family name with one or two "i's" at the end and Bob's you uncle.

Common names are much easier: trees are either oaks, ashes or gums. Just have a pick!

Originally Posted by IanW

It was many a year ago, Derek, so both our memories are suspect, but the species does not occur over here. Rock oak (A. huegeliana), is most definitely a W.A. species. The WA ag. site wouldn't link, so I'll have to use Wikipedia as my reference....

Cheers,

I stand corrected on availability, but I do recall you giving me a chunk of wood. Perhaps it was something else?

Now I shall look out for more Bull Oak. It is glorious!

Regards from Perth

Derek

Originally Posted by derekcohen

I stand corrected on availability, but I do recall you giving me a chunk of wood. Perhaps it was something else?

Now I shall look out for more Bull Oak. It is glorious! ....

Derek, I have given & recieved so many chunks of wood over the years, I wouldn't trust my own memory much, as a rule. I do try to remember where anything especially nice came from, in case I need/want more, but am not always successful.

If it's the handle in the first post that takes your fancy, that's "swamp oak" (C. obesa) - you do need the botanicaal name because there are at least three different casuarinas called "swamp oak". I got my wires crossed on the first post & called it C. huegeliana. which is Rock oak - Right state, wrong tree!

This is what one of your stte bodies says of swamp oak:

Swamp sheoak Casuarina obesa
Found from the Murchison River to east of Albany and inland to the goldfields and near Wiluna. Occurs in floodways of swamps, creeks, rivers, estuaries and other brackish to saline winter wet depressions. Grows on a variety of soil types. An easily grown tree that is useful on a range of brackish to saline waterbodies.
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If you can't find any, just plant your own -"easy to grow", they say. You may have to wait a while to get a saw handle sized piece, though.

Cheers,