Besides those gums, another Australasian tree, the thin-foliaged and unlovely, but quick-growing "beefwood," has been largely planted at Kimberley and some other places. From Wordnik.com. [Impressions of South Africa] Reference
The beefwood tree, the leaves of which camels, when hard pressed, will eat, alone commands the summit of the undulations. From Wordnik.com. [Spinifex and Sand] Reference
Between those brushes the ground was open forest with good grass, casuarina or beefwood, and large timber: the hills as usual stony. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales] Reference
Next some parallel ridges lying north and south were crossed, where some beefwood, or Grevillea trees, ornamented the scene, the country again opening into beautiful grassy lawns. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,] Reference
On June 2nd we crossed the last sand-ridge of the great northern desert, and before us spread the rolling gravel-covered undulations of sand, treeless except for an occasional beefwood or small clump of mulga, rolling away before us like a swelling ocean. From Wordnik.com. [Spinifex and Sand] Reference
During the 'wet' (our winter), it's impassable, during the 'dry' (April to October), it's rough but idyllic, with scenery punctuated by massive, sculptural boabs (Aussie baobabs), black beefwood trees and blinding white ghost-gums shading hundreds of humpbacked Brahman cattle. From Wordnik.com. [British Blogs] Reference
W. steered a S.W. course, towards some low and wooded hills, passing a rocky island, and found that we had struck the mouth of a channel running to the W.S.W. It was about half-a-mile wide, was bounded to the right by some open flat ground, and to the left by a line of hills of about sixty or seventy feet in elevation, partly open and partly covered with beefwood. From Wordnik.com. [Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Complete] Reference
"beefwood" and the red gum. From Wordnik.com. [Impressions of South Africa] Reference
C litorea L), is the most widespread ant well-known member of the family Casuarinaceae, ant has many names: casuarina, ironwood, coast she-oak, horsetail, Australian pine, whistling pine, beefwood, agoho (Philippines), ru (Malaysia), filao (Vietnam. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 19] Reference
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