The Kasuarine (Casuarina equisetifolia), also or Kasuarinabaum mentioned, is a kind from the order of the beech-well-behaved (Fagales). Frequently the German term Kasuarine is used however also for other kinds from the family of the (Casuarinaceae) belonging kinds; usual German names for kinds of this family were not in-patriated so far in Germany yet. A clear allocation, which kind is meant, is possible only over the scientific designation.

Appearance

The Kasuarine is a slim, lockerkroniger tree, which can reach a stature height of up to 25 meters. In its stature form and its Belaubung he reminds of a Konifere. The sheets are as regressed for typically to tiny, pointed sheds.

The kind is getrenntgeschlechtig The blooms are strongly reduced. The female blooms, which have red scars, appear in small, cylindrical ears. The male bloom conditions are inconspicuous against it and are holzige, small and round tap, which is broad up to 12 millimeters; the male blooms consist only of a Staubblatt.

Circulation area

The natural circulation area of the Kasuarine hands tropical southeast of the Asia from the northeast and the north of Australia over the Pacific islands into the coastal regions.

The Kasuarine grows naturally at beaches and gets along also with locations, which lies exposed on promontories. The tree forms large existence in parts. The fruits of the tree are buoyant, which explains the large circulation area of this tree species.

The kind is today in the entire tropical belt, particularly common at beaches.

Other

The Kasuarine is cultivated because of their salt resistance and its in many tropical and subtropical countries as Zierbaum, to the wind protection and for the attachment of dunes.

The wood ranks because of its hardness among the so-called "„iron woods "“. Traditionally this wood was used by Polynesiern for the building of Kanus and for the production of controversy pistons.

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