Near the head of the river, on the point, was a plantation of she-oak. From Wordnik.com. [A Source Book of Australian History] Reference
Casuarina equisetifolia (she-oak) Avicennia officinalis (white mangrove). From Wordnik.com. [Tropic Days] Reference
Toby: it's the one called "she-oak" though that term is not in colloquial usage in Hawaii. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: HACKMATACK.] Reference
Here and there stood a solitary she-oak, most doleful of trees, its scraggy, pine-needle foliage bleached to grey. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Felix] Reference
Known as swamp she-oak in its native Australia, Casuarina glauca grows in difficult, saline sites inhospitable to many other trees. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 20] Reference
I recrossed Batman's Creek, and travelled over thinly-timbered country of box, gum, wattle, and she-oak, with grass three of four feet high. From Wordnik.com. [A Source Book of Australian History] Reference
When the wattle-blooms are drooping in the sombre she-oak glade. From Wordnik.com. [The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses] Reference
Near the beach stood two she-oak trees, marked, one with the letters M. M. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned] Reference
The trees in general were the tall she-oak so common in the neighbourhood of Sydney. From Wordnik.com. [The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson With the journal of her first commander Lieutenant James Grant] Reference
"Well, young people, what luck?" said the burly mine-owner, as with his hands on his hips, he leant against a she-oak. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Gerrard] Reference
They jumped up and climbed the bank, while I perched on the she-oak roots over the water to be out of sight as they passed. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Sliprails] Reference
The night wind sighed a soothing lullaby through the spines of the she-oak, and his spirit passed peacefully away with the ebb. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned] Reference
I went down under the banks to where there was a big she-oak stump half in the water, going quietly, with an idea of not frightening the fish. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Sliprails] Reference
Grassy plains are an unusual sight in Santo; the wide expanse of yellowish green is surrounded by dark walls of she-oak, in the branches of which hang thousands of flying-foxes. From Wordnik.com. [Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific] Reference
I watched him depart until the clacking of his horse's hoofs grew faint on the stony hillside and his form disappeared amid the she-oak scrub which crowned the ridge to the westward. From Wordnik.com. [My Brilliant Career] Reference
Milky-way was a she-oak grove; and the gentle winds that blew at night waved the trees and shook the boughs, and so made the fires gleam from beneath their shadow, fitful and subdued. From Wordnik.com. [Colonial Born A tale of the Queensland bush] Reference
In Sydney, Governor King permitted him to purchase a small locally constructed vessel of light draught -- called the Casuarina, because she was built of she-oak -- with which to explore rivers and shallow waters. From Wordnik.com. [Terre Napoleón; a History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia] Reference
Then they returned to Ara, where Mr. Atkin notes, in the very centre of the island, a curious rock, about 200 feet high, and on the top, 20 or 30 feet from the nearest visible soil, a she-oak stump, and two more green and flourishing a little below. From Wordnik.com. [Life of John Coleridge Patteson]
So would that Australian Casuarina be a "tea-tree" ti-tree) or "she-oak" :-) ?. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: HACKMATACK.] Reference
Casuarina equisetifolia (she-oak). From Wordnik.com. [Tropic Days] Reference
Senecio macroglossus and mikanioides. senna, wild. service-tree.shearing. shelter-belts. she-oak. shepherdia species. shrubs, list of. shrubs, pruning. shrubs for the South. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)] 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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