Drooping She-oak is a common tree in South-Eastern Australia. It has a superficial appearance of a pine, especially because of its cone-l...Read Moreike fruit. What appear to be pine needles are in fact young stems of the plant, with the leaves reduced to whorls of tiny scales at regular intervals along the stems. The stems of this species are greyish in colour and have a distinctly weeping form. The trees are dioecious, having distinct male and female flowers, borne on different plants. The male flowers are catkins formed as extensions of the outer stems and a male tree in flower is covered in light orange catkins. The female flowers are red tufts borne on the older twigs and branches and if pollinated, will develop into woody cones. The trees are easily grown from seed and I have helped to grow a number of them for local revegetation projects. I have one in my garden, which I grew from seed and has proved to be a male. It is now some 3 to 4 metres tall.
Drooping She-oak is a common tree in South-Eastern Australia. It has a superficial appearance of a pine, especially because of its cone-l...Read More