This shrub has a short solitary or multiple stems with ascending spreading branches that form a bushy habit. It has dark green needle-like branchlets with scale leaves and the male and female reddish flowers appear in a spike from late winter to spring.

Hardiness zones 9  to 10

Allocasuarina campestris Is naturally found in south-west Western Australia appearing over a large inland region from Geraldton in the north to Perth and extending to the coast at Esperance in the south. It grows in the Avon wheatbelt and the Esperance plains, Geraldton sandplains or in Jarrah forests, amongst mallee and on the Swan coastal plain. 

It prefers an open to expose sunny position and it grows in very well drained, poor to moderately fertile sandy stony to clay loam that is tending acidic. It is drought, wind and frost tolerant and regenerates from seed after fire.

This Casuarina is grown for its dense bushy habit and attractive foliage. It is painted along garden borders for screening or as a windbreak and is used in farms as a shelter belt the livestock. It is also grown in coastal gardens as a specimen and when young it can be grown in planter boxes. It is suitable for coastal and inland regions and establishes in 3-4 years and his long-lived. This shrub is very adaptable under cultivation and is used in rehabilitation programs for stabilising soil. It may be difficult to obtain requiring a specialist nursery. ID 3807

Allocasuarina (al-low-kazh-yoo-ar-EYE-nuh) campestris (kam-PES-triss)

Note:
Roots of this plant have nodules that contain symbolic nitrogen fixing bacteria enabling the species to thrive in very poor soils in semi arid regions.

Casuarinaceae (KAS-ew-rin-AY-see-ee)