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  • COMMON NAME: Australian pine tree, whistling pine tree.
  • ARABIC: كازوارينا
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Casuarina equisetifolia L.
  • SYNONYMS: Casuarina equisetifolia var. typica Domin
  • FAMILY: CASUARINACEAE
  • KIND: Introduced
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Umm-Al-Quwain , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Landscape (L) Apiculture (A)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Tree
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Plants used by honeybees for nectar collection for honey production. C. equisetifolia is a serious problem in Florida, it is also reported invasive in several other countries with varying degrees of severity. The wide introduction of C. equisetifolia across many tropical and subtropical countries may constitute a risk of future invasion events.
https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/16718#tosummaryOfInvasiveness Karim FM and Dakheel AG. Salt-tolerant plants of the United Arab Emirates. 2006. International Center for Biosaline Agriculture, Dubai, UAE. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:159856-1/general-information#vernacular-names V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021.
Honey nectar plants. Highly salt tolerant. Ornamental and medicinal uses.
Large, erect, evergreen tree, resembling pine, 3-8 meters high. Branchlets many, slender, jointed, striate, bluish green. Leaves drooping, filiform, scale like, whorled, fall at intervals in the year. Flowers mostly unisexual, staminate in slender, terminal spikes, stamen one; pistillate, in short dense, axillary heads, pistil one. Fruit a cone, globular, about 1.5cm in diameter, valves hairy, not keeled. Flowering from February-March.
Cultivated, it grows near beaches and exposed coastal headlands. Other plants will not grow easily underneath it. Tolerates dry and saline conditions.
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