Casuarina pauper (Belah)
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Belah, Casuarina pauper, grows on red-brown soils. Kinchega National Park, NSW
Photograph by John Tann from Sydney. Some rights reserved. (view image details)
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Belah, Casuarina pauper, ascending branches. Kinchega National Park, NSW
Photograph by John Tann from Sydney. Some rights reserved. (view image details)
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Belah, Casuarina pauper, fruit about 10mm. Kinchega National Park, NSW
Photograph by John Tann from Sydney. Some rights reserved. (view image details)
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Credits:
Description and Habitat information is sourced from: State of Victoria (Agriculture Victoria), Victorian Resources Online,http://vro.agriculture.vic.gov.au/dpi/vro/vrosite.nsf/pages/water_sip_scientific_a Licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license.
Growth Characteristics information is sourced from:
State Flora Catalog, Government of South Australia
Licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license.
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BELAH FACTS |
Map is from The Atlas of Living Australia web site, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License
Common Name
Belah
Other Names
Black Oak
Description
Belah is a tree from 10-12 m tall with finely fissured, scaly, grey-brown bark and long, jointed, slender, wiry, ribbed, grey-green, branchlets with tiny 1 mm long teeth (reduced leaves) in whorls of 9-20.
Plants are either male or female. Male flowers in elongated spikes, 1-3 cm long, with alternating tooth-like bracts. Female flowers in globular to ovoid heads on short lateral branchlets. Fruit of pale yellow-brown to dull grey, winged seed contained in cones, 10-22 mm long and 11-15 mm long with valves well extended from the cone body.
Habitat
open woodlands on sandy rises
Distribution
north-west of Victoria, western NSW and inland South Australia and Western Australia.
Growth Characteristics
Height (m): 6 - 15
Spread (m): 4 - 8
Soil Texture: loam, clay, limestone
Soil pH: acid soils, neutral soils, alkaliine soils
Frost Sensitivity: resistant
Minimum Rainfall (mm): 200
Flower Colour: red
Flower Season: summer
(source: SA State Flora Catalog)
Classification
| Class: | Magnoliopsida | | Order: | Fagales | | Family: | Casuarinaceae | | Genus: | Casuarina | | Species: | pauper | | Common Name: | Belah |
Relatives in same Genus
Casuarina obesa
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