Casuarina

Branches are slender, grey, striate, usually weeping. Branchlets are whip-like, green, jointed, ridged, resembling Equisetum or Ephedra. Leaves are minute, scale-like, arranged in whorls. Male flowers are in catkin-like spikes, perianth segments 1-2, scale-like, stamens 2. Female flowers are in condensed heads, becoming cone-like and woody at maturity. Fruit is a winged achene (samara) with pale yellow-brown or grayish, dull, glabrous body.