Scientific Name: Casuarina glauca

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  • Pronunciation:
    cas-you-ah-REEN-ah GLAw-cah
  • Common Name:
    Swamp Oak
  • Derivation:
    glauca: L. glacus - silvery bluish-green - waxy bloom on leaves that sometimes rubs off
  • Type:
    Tree
  • Family:
    CASUARINACEAE
  • Fruit:
    Crowed into a cone with persistent bracts which open like a capsule
  • Vegetation Type:
    Tidal Wetland.
  • Species List:
    Weyba Esp, Bush food, NLTalks2010, Boreen Point Caravan Park, Cooloothin Corner, Fraser Island, Mill Point, Mangrove, Johns, Cooroibah Conservation Park, Cooroibah Conservation Park, Cooroibah Bushland Reserve, Cranks Creek, Batianoff 87, NNS Frog Hollow BHNR, Regional Ecosystem 12.1.1.
Cultural Notes

TAKE CARE! Some information about bush foods and medicines may be anecdotal. Correct identification and preparation is essential:

Honey Production: honey source nil, pollen source minor.

Timber: used for fencing rails and small pylons in salt water. Wood used for woomeras.

Bush Food: Aboriginal people pushed trunks into creeks to attract shipworm grubs, which were eaten raw or cooked. |Foliage chewed to reduce saliva flow during drought, acted as a thirst quencher. |Children chewed immature fruit.

Identification Notes

Drooping branchlets long and thick with leaves reduced to 9-16 scale-like teeth in whorl. Bark greyish and closely cracked.||

Landscaping Notes

Noosa Council Preferred Species list. Fast growing tree for average to swampy soils. Can be used in saline soils. Useful for windbreaks.||Successfully propagated by Coolum Community Native Nursery.|Successfully propagated by Tin Can Bay City Farm Nursery.|Successfully propagated by Florabunda Bushcare nursery, Woombye||