casuarinas in English

noun
1
a tree with slender, jointed, drooping twigs that resemble horsetails and bear tiny scalelike leaves. It is native to Australia and Southeast Asia, and is a valuable source of timber and firewood.
Planting makes use of indigenous species, like the frothy casuarinas (feathery tree native to Australia) along the northern edges of the site and the native grasses which cover low earth berms around the range.

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1. What does Beefwood mean? Any of various Australian trees or shrubs having dense red timber, including several casuarinas

2. Casuarina cunninghamiana is the hardiest of the Casuarinas; it is found mostly in the central to northern regions of Florida where it has been known to survive temperatures as low as -8.8° C

3. ‘Even Casuarina trees on wayside were cut and shaped in the form of animals.’ ‘Their habitat is Casuarina forest and woodland and their diet is not surprisingly almost exclusively the seeds of Casuarinas, with the occasional insect and the odd eucalypt, angophora, hakea …