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  • Isolated areas of mallee and rock sheoak (Casuarina huegeliana) also occur.

    Southwest Australia woodlands 2008

  • Common Names River sheoak, creek oak, river oak, casuarina

    6. Best-Known Species 1984

  • The species derives its common names - rock sheoak and granite sheoak - from its occurrence on massive rocky outcrops (inselbergs).

    7. Other Promising Species 1984

  • Common Names Yar or soft yar (Papua New Guinea), sheoak

    6. Best-Known Species 1984

  • Common Names Drooping sheoak, coast sheoak, mountain oak

    7. Other Promising Species 1984

  • Black sheoak grows on a variety of sites from lowland flats to undulating topography and mountain peaks, though it is most common on well-drained hills and mountain slopes.

    7. Other Promising Species 1984

  • As the seagod sang a lovesong and the sheoak answer made,

    The Magpie’s Song 1918

  • "It's the second big paddock from here, if you follow the belt of the sheoak trees over there.

    Dot and the Kangaroo Ethel C. Pedley 1889

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