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Allocasuarina luehmannii
Also called Bulloak, Buloke
Bull-oak (Allocasuarina luehmannii) is a dioecious Australian tree of woodlands, growing 5 to 15 m tall with furrowed bark and leaves reduced to scale-like teeth in whorls. It is a hardy, drought-tolerant tree suited to dry, open sites with full sun and good drainage.
Allocasuarina luehmannii, commonly known as buloke or bull-oak, is a species of flowering plant in the family Casuarinaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a dioecious tree, that has its leaves reduced to scales in whorls of ten to fourteen, and the mature fruiting cones are 5–12 mm (0.2–0.5 in) long containing winged seeds (samaras) 4–5 mm (0.16–0.20 in) long.
Allocasuarina luehmannii usually grows in scattered places in woodland from Mareeba and south through central Queensland, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory to north-western Victoria and nearby areas of South Australia. It rarely occurs near the coast, except in the Hunter Valley and near Rockhampton.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Allocasuarina luehmannii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
