Fw: Cauuarina / Alloccasuarina identification please. -Food for Glossy Black-cockatoos?

[Ian Fraser <>]

Hi Julienne. Yes, that's Allocasuarina verticillata, prime G B-C tucker. 
It's the only Allocasuarina found locally (cf the River Oak, Casuarina 
cunninghamiana, which doesn't interest the GBCs, perhaps because the 
cones are too small).
[Actually, because pedantry is not unknown on this line, I should 
acknowledge two other locally very rare Allocasuarinas, A. luehmanii at 
the eastern edge of its range in Molonglo Gorge and Black Mtn Peninsula, 
and A. littoralis, at its most inland limits south of Gibraltar Falls.]
cheers

Ian

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