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Allocasuarina torulosa (forest-oak)

Synonyms: Casuarina ericoides (homotypic); Casuarina lugubris; Casuarina tenuissima (homotypic); Casuarina torulosa (heterotypic); Casuarina torulosa f. gracilior

Wikipedia Abstract

Allocasuarina torulosa (rose she-oak or forest oak) is a tree which grows in sub-rainforest (just outside the main forest area) of Queensland and New South Wales, Australia. Originally described as Casuarina torulosa by William Aiton, it was moved to its current genus in 1982 by Australian botanist Lawrie Johnson. It is the type species of the genus Allocasuarina. The timber is reddish pink to brown. It is prized by woodworkers and woodturners as a rare and exotic timber, often used in wood turnings, knife handles and other specialist items.
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Attributes

Flower Type [1]  Dioecious
Janka Hardness [2]  3150 lbf (1429 kgf) Very Hard
Leaf Type [1]  Evergreen
Specific Gravity [3]  0.816
Structure [1]  Tree
Usage [1]  Wood - tough, durable. Used for veneer and joinery, it is also a very good fuel;
Height [1]  49 feet (15 m)
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Predators

Aacanthocnema burckhardti[4]
Aacanthocnema torulosae[4]
Calyptorhynchus lathami (Glossy Black Cockatoo)[5]
Cylindrococcus casuarinae[6]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Carphodorus bilineatus[7]
Criconema lanxifrons[7]
Criconema pasticum[7]
Hemicriconemoides insignis[7]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

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♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2Wood Janka Hardness Scale/Chart J W Morlan's Unique Wood Gifts
♦ 3Chave J, Coomes D, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Swenson NG, Zanne AE (2009) Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Ecology Letters 12: 351-366. Zanne AE, Lopez-Gonzalez G, Coomes DA, Ilic J, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Miller RB, Swenson NG, Wiemann MC, Chave J (2009) Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Dryad Digital Repository.
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 5del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 6Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 7Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0