Tree Details

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Botanical Name	Casuarinae quisetifolia L.
Family Name	Casuarinaceae
Common Name	Australian pine, shea (she)-oak and beefwood
Tamil Name	சவுக்கு
Life Form	Tree
Distribution	Burma, Vietnam, Malaysia, New Caledonia, Vanuatu and Australia
Botanical Distribution	Habit: Tree, up to 20 m tall; bark grayish dark brown; narrowly branchlets, up to 3.5 m long. Leaves: Alternate, whorl, linear-subulate to filiform, needle like, cylindric at margin; nerves less; petiole sessile. Flowers: Spike axillary or terminal. Flowers, greenish. Male flowers terminal. Tepals 2, lanceolate, minutely ciliate. Stamens 1; filament subulate, anther ovoid. Femal flowers axillary, subglobose; bracts and whorl. Ovary small; 1-loculed; ovules 1 - 2; style filiform; stigma subglobose, red, Fruit: Carpophores cylindric, ellipsoid, netlets many, winged
Flowering and Fruiting	August - November
Key Compounds	α –phellandrene ,α – terpinyl acetate,α–pinene
Medicinal Use	Acne , Asthma , Beri –beri
At the Campus	Throughout the campus