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 …