Botanical Name Allocasuarina Verticillata
Syn. Casuarinas Stricta

Common Name Drooping She Oak

Family Name Casuarinaceae

Kaurna Name. Karkoo-Tree (Karkoo Mungo-gum)

It prefers light to medium soils, in an open sunny position and is drought, frost, wind and salt resistant.

An evergreen tree

Height 10m

Spread 5m

Stem Erect and straight with prominently ridged bark.

Leaves Greyish and needle like

Flowers Catkins - the male are brown
The female are red in winter to spring

Fruit Contained in the cones

Cones Oval to globular 2-5cm long and 25mm across

Propagation Is by seed.

Aboriginal uses: An excellent hardwood, used to make clubs. Cones were used to give water a lemon flavor. These were available in summer and autumn. Dried and hardened older leaf spikes were used to cure warts. The wart was pierced in the center and then around all sides. The spikes were left in the wart for a few minutes: in a few weeks the wart disappeared.