Casuarina equisetifolia L.
Campus Location
Rajagiri Business School, Valley Campus, Kakkanad
Systematic position
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Streptophyta
Class: Equisetopsida
Order: Fagales
Family: Casuarinaceae
Whistling Pine is native to Australia, New Guinea, Southeast Asia and India. It typically growing to a height of 12-35 m tall. The foliage consists of slender, drooping branchlets, leaves reduced to scale-like teeth arranged in whorls around the branchlets, flowers are monoecious, inflorescences are both shaped like catkins. The fruit is an oval woody structure made up of numerous carpels containing single small winged seed.
- It is used as an ornamental tree.
- Line planting of the trees in coastal areas has been known to help control the force of the wind.
Casuarina equisetifolia L.
Campus Location
Rajagiri Business School, Valley Campus, Kakkanad
Systematic position
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Streptophyta
Class: Equisetopsida
Order: Fagales
Family: Casuarinaceae
Whistling Pine is native to Australia, New Guinea, Southeast Asia and India. It typically growing to a height of 12-35 m tall. The foliage consists of slender, drooping branchlets, leaves reduced to scale-like teeth arranged in whorls around the branchlets, flowers are monoecious, inflorescences are both shaped like catkins. The fruit is an oval woody structure made up of numerous carpels containing single small winged seed.
- It is used as an ornamental tree.
- Line planting of the trees in coastal areas has been known to help control the force of the wind.