Casuarina glauca
Swamp oak · also Swamp buloke, Swamp she-oak, Marsh sheoak
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Casuarina glauca is a dioecious tree characterized by fissured, scaly bark and spreading or weeping branchlets with reduced scale-like leaves. It forms aggressive root suckers and is highly tolerant, but can be weedy and invasive outside its native range.
Where it grows
Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.
- 8500.56%—3.8 in
No city in this list records planting dates for this species, so age is blank throughout.
Traits
- Form
- Weeping
- Foliage
- Evergreen
- Mature height
- 70 ft
- Canopy spread
- 20 ft
- Growth rate
- Fast
- Water needs
- Low
- Drought tolerance
- Low
- Roots
- Invasive
- Tolerates
- salt
Trunk diameters across every city: median 3.8 in, mean 3.6 in, 90th percentile 5.6 in. Measured at breast height, as published by each inventory.
Native range
Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas & Shrublands
- Eastern Australia mulga shrublands
Other Casuarina in the catalogue
5 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.
