Growing Casuarina from Seed (Sheoak)

How to grow casuarina from seed, including seed collection.
Casuarina is a genus of 17 tree species in the family Casuarinaceae, native to Australia, the Indian subcontinent, southeast Asia, islands of the western Pacific Ocean, and eastern Africa. It was once treated as the sole genus in the family, but has been split into four genera (see: Casuarinaceae).[1][3]
Casuarina equisetifolia at Chikhaldara, India
They are evergreen shrubs and trees growing to 35 m (115 ft) tall. The slender, green to grey-green twigs bearing minute scale-leaves in whorls of 5-20. The apetalous flowers are produced in small catkin-like inflorescences. Most species are dioecious, but a few are monoecious. The fruit is a woody, oval structure superficially resembling a conifer cone, made up of numerous carpels, each containing a single seed with a small wing.[3][4] The generic name is derived from the Malay word for the cassowary, kasuari, alluding to the similarities between the bird's feathers and the plant's foliage,[5] though the tree is called rhu in current standard Malay.
Karen Louise Wilson and Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson distinguish the two very closely related genera, Casuarina and Allocasuarina on the basis of:[6]
Casuarina: the mature samaras being grey or yellow brown, and dull; cone bracteoles thinly woody, prominent, extending well beyond cone body, with no dorsal protuberance;
Allocasuarina: the mature samaras being red brown to black, and shiny; cone bracteoles thickly woody and convex, mostly extending only slightly beyond cone body, and usually with a separate angular, divided or spiny dorsal protuberance.
Selected species
Casuarina cristata Miq. (northeastern Australia: Queensland, New South Wales).
Casuarina cunninghamiana Miq. - river she-oak (northern and eastern Australia: Northern Territory to New South Wales)
Casuarina equisetifolia L. - beach she-oak, common ironwood, Australian pine (Florida),[8] casuarina, whistling pine[9] (northern Australia, southeastern Asia, doubtfully native to Madagascar), ঝাউ in বাংলা (Bengali), ಗಾಳಿ ಮರ (gaali mara) in Kannada.
Casuarina glauca Sieber ex Spreng. grey she-oak, longleaf ironwood, saltmarsh ironwood, swamp oak (New South Wales)
Casuarina grandis L.A.S.Johnson (New Guinea)
Casuarina junghuhniana Miq. (Indonesia)
Casuarina obesa Miq. (southern Australia: southwestern Western Australia, New South Wales [one site, now extirpated], Victoria)
Casuarina oligodon L.A.S.Johnson (New Guinea)
Casuarina pauper F.Muell. ex L.A.S.Johnson (Australia)

[@ezradewar7774]

Thanks for this I will now try growing some!

[@juicesquare0219]

love it

[@IdlanRafiqi]

Tomorrow i will hunt for Casuarina seedling.. 😜

[@cocopops7945]

Do you have any tips on the Dune Sheoak? Thank you!

[@brsrc759]

In Hawaii we call these ironwood trees

[@SANJAYSHARMA-jq1sg]

Can we grow cajorina by local pods honorable please reply me

[@hu4ngming]

Casuarina Equisetifolia?

[@wereoursouls3472]

Can i just plant the female seed in soil or do I need the male seeds as well. Thanks

[@tr33guy]

Hi the seeds will only be on the female plants. The male plants produce pollen which fertilizes the female flowers, which then produce seeds.

[@wereoursouls3472]

@@tr33guy thanks for the quick reply. That makes sense, sorry this is all new to me. Thanks for your help, I love the way these trees sound in the wind.

[@Dubhghaill]

@@tr33guy Hi, I have brought 40 small saplings of these but have no way of telling male from female so will have to plant them altogether, I have two of these trees on my property and I think one is male and the other a female but they are very far apart so there has not been any others growing anywhere else on the property