casuarina

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• 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 and acacia seed thrown in.
• A tree Sir Joseph Banks had classified as casuarina was found to yield very good shingle timber, but was located some distance away around the stream swamp, and excellent brick clay was discovered a mile inland. Morgan’s Run
• The blue gum trees in the neighbourhood were extremely fine, whilst that species of eucalyptus, which is vulgarly called the apple tree, and which we had not seen since we quitted the eastern coast, again made its appearance on the flats, and of large size; as was the casuarina filifolia, growing here and there on its immediate banks. Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales
• Aldabran drongo Dicrurus aldabranus (approximately 1,500 individuals) is also an endemic species which inhabits scrub, mangrove and casuarina areas. Aldabra Atoll, Seychelles
• Pure chance has covered Phi Phi Lay in dark green casuarinas, bamboo, pandani, and palms.
• Dry eucalypt forests are very open, typically dominated by peppermint eucalypts (subgenus Monocalyptus series Piperitae) more than 5 meters in height, with a scattered layer of small xerophytic species, such as Acacia, Allocasuarina, and Exocarpos spp. in the understory Eucalyptus amygalina, E. pulchella, and E. viminalis are all found in this ecoregion. Tasmanian temperate forests
• Trees that can be used as windbreaks are Casuarina equistifolia, Greillea robusta, Artocarpus hirsute, Eucalyptus, Acacia auriculiformis and Carissa carandus.
• For about twenty-five miles we traversed an entirely open plain, similar to that just described, and mostly covered with the waving broom bushes; but now upon our right hand, to the north, and stretching also to the west, was a dark line of higher ground formed of sandhills and fringed with low scrub, and timber of various kinds, such as cypress pines (callitris), black oak (casuarinas) stunted mallee (eucalyptus), and a kind of acacia called myal. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,
• Between those brushes the ground was open forest with good grass, casuarina or beefwood, and large timber: the hills as usual stony. Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales
• The trees on this firm margin of land were a species of eucalyptus, cypresses, and the sterculia heterophylla, with a few casuarinae. Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales