Black Sheoak
''Allocasuarina littoralis'', commonly known as black she-oak, is a species of flowering plant in the family Casuarinaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is Dioecy, dioecious, or less commonly a Monoecy, monoecious tree or shrub, that has its leaves reduced to scales, usually in whorls of six to eight, the mature fruiting cones long containing winged seeds (Samara (fruit), samaras) long. Description ''Allocasuarina littoralis'' is a dioecious, or less commonly a monoecious tree or shrub, that typically grows to a height of . Its branchlets are usually up to long, rarely to , the leaves reduced to scale-like teeth long, arranged in whorls of usually six to eight around the branchlets. The sections of branchlet between the leaf whorls (the Glossary of botanical terms#article, "articles") are long and wide. Male flowers are arranged in spikes long, in whorls of six to twelve per cm (per 0.4 in), the Stamen#Morphology and terminology, anthers long. Female cones are on ...
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