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Casuarina equisetifolia
Spotted in a local garden,it's a pine tree but i dont know the species
Spotted on Feb 9, 2012
Submitted on Feb 17, 2012
6 Comments
You're welcome! Glad to hear that. Better if you also bring the "cone", it really help to identify the exact genus, also species :)
Misha,Achmmad,Planter,thanks you tree for the ID and for the precious information you bring to the comments,fantastic,the next time i pass in this garden i'll go near to take some shoots of the famous leafs of this beautiful tree,thanks again people
Agreed with AchmmadMWY.
And one more, this is usually called Australian Pine :)
@Misha: Absolutely right! And the weeping green isn't actually leaves. The leaves are just very small, usually called teeth or scales in whorl, you can see in the green branchlets, usually they are brighter than the branchlet itself. Here is the key identification for the Casuarinaceae family, it is relatively easy due to their small number of genera (now 4, but formerly just only 1). http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bi...
So that looks like something in the genus Casuarina. These are not true pine trees - you can tell because if you look at the "needles" they are segmented, not one long piece as in a true pine tree needle. It *looks* like the species Casuarina equisetifolia but I'm not 100% sure.