Scientific Name: Allocasuarina torulosa

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  • Pronunciation:
    al-oh-cas-you-ah-REEN-ah tor-YEW-low-sa
  • Common Name:
    Forest Oak
  • Type:
    Tree
  • Family:
    CASUARINACEAE
  • Status:
    Common
  • Flowers:
    Reddish-brown flowers at branch end (male plants), red flowers along stems (females)
  • Fruit:
    Crowded into a cone with persistent bracts which open like a capsule
  • Flowers Color:
    Red
  • Fruit Color:
    Brown
  • Vegetation Type:
    Eucalypt Forest
  • Species List:
    EdingtonDr, Bush food, Bush medicine, craft, Wooroi Day Use Area Tracks, Fraser Island, Janet, Batianoff 87, Upper Yandina Creek, NC, Heritage Park, RE 12.8.14. RE 12.11.9. RE 12.12.2a.
Cultural Notes

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

Bush Food:. Foliage chewed to reduce saliva flow during drought, acted as a thirst quencher. Children chewed immature fruit. Timber: Wood used for woomeras.

Identification Notes

Bark: greyish, longitudinally cracked, greyish||Leaves: reduced to many-toothed sheaths around nodes of branchlets.||Branchlets: 0.4-0.5 mm thick with 4 (rarely 5) teeth in a whorl.||

Associated Fauna

A food source for Glossy Black Cockatoos

Landscaping Notes

Noosa Council Preferred Species list.