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Agoho-Casuarina equisetifolia |
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Written by Bonsai King
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Saturday, 12 December 2009 17:28 |
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Agoho / Aguho / Australian pine
Casuarina Tree
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| Scientific Name: |
Casuarina equisetifolia |
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| Family: |
Casuaranaceae |
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Habitat
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| The native range of Casuarina equisetifolia includes Malaysia, southern Asia, Australia and Oceania, the islands of the Pacific between Asia and the Americas,the Caribbean Territories ,Puerto Rico, Bahamas, Hawaii, and coastal Florida |
Propagation
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| Casuarina equisetifolia can reproduce sexually via seed as well as vegetatively through the sprouting of new clonal trunks from existing rootstock |
Comments
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Small, round, cone-like fruits and long, whispy, grayish green needle-like branchlets give the tree its pine-like appearance. Leaves are reduced to small scales occurring in whorls of 6-8 leaves per whorl at joints (nodes) along the length of the branchlets. The brown flowers are tiny and non-descript
Casuarina equisetifolia, is not a pine at all. It is a deciduous dicot angiosperm tree that superficially resembles a conifer
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Last Updated on Saturday, 19 December 2009 12:54 |