Cleaning and smoothing a place in the sand, a small branch from a silvery-leafed ti-tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spinifex and Sand] Reference

In this inhospitable element, and just beyond high tide, several species of plants have shown themselves, inclusive of watermelons, tomatoes, (not of that degenerate variety which sometimes crops up in unexpected places, but good, rotund, sweet-flavoured sorts), the beach hibiscus, the native cabbage, that lovely silvery-leafed shrub known as SOPHORA TOMENTOSA, the poona oil tree, with its coppery new foliage, many small and vigorous plants of the umbrella-tree, and several varieties of grass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Last Leaves from Dunk Island] Reference