Female Swamp Sheoak Casuarina Tree In Full Flower & Covered In Honey Bees - Getting A Beehive Soon!

Acoustic Sounds of the "Haunted & Grieving" Casuarina Tree - West Australian Aboriginal Legend
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The Tree and Its Voices: What the Casuarina Says
The tree known popularly and scientifically as the casuarina has been consistently noticed for the sounds made as wind passes through its unusual foliage of needles and leaf scales. The acoustic experience of the casuarina - with subspecies found throughout Australia - has been represented as ‘haunted’, ‘grieving’ and voicing the secret language of initiates. This essay traces intriguing conceptual and aesthetic representations of the ‘voice’ and its listeners found across both Aboriginal and white Australian cultures in traditional English verse, Aboriginal prose narrative, accounts of cultural practices, and hybrid blends of all three. The essay adopts the notion of ‘listening to listening’ to set out the many forms of story the tree’s sounds generate their contribution to identifying places, and to suggest a specific Aboriginal song-line appears to underlie the divergent replications of tree-'voice' across southern Australia.
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She oak foliage means that it is often mistaken for a pine tree, and like pine trees, she oaks have little cones full of seeds. For these reasons, she oaks attract many native birds. Black cockatoos like the she oak cones, while finches and rainbow lorikeets are more interested in the seed. Willie Wagtails, Pee Wees and Butcher birds all favour she oaks for nesting trees. Don suggests that large groups of she oaks set them off to best advantage, and foliage of a bank of she oaks creates a wonderful whistling sound when the wind blows through it.
She oak foliage is not made up of leaves, but rather very fine ridged branches or ‘branchlets’. Don showed that when a branchlet was pulled apart and looked at under a lens, you can see the tiny teeth-like points, which are the true leaves, at the end of each branchlet. The number of teeth will tell you which species the tree belongs to. These branchlets and reduced leaves give casuarinas a great advantage in the harsh Australian climate. The gaseous exchange that plants require to live occurs at stomates, which on other plants are located on the surface of leaves. In she oaks, the stomates are found on the inside furrows of the ridges of each branchlet, which means that little water is lost by the plant.
Water loss is further minimised by the plant as the branchlets fall to form a thick blanket underneath the tree. Branchlets do not poison the soil, as it was once thought, but rather act as a wonderfully rich mulch which suppresses weeds and helps to stabilise soil from erosion. The roots of the she oak actually produce a kind of free fertiliser by taking nitrogen from the air and putting it into the soil.
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Acoustic Sounds of the "Haunted & Grieving" Casuarina Tree - West Australian Aboriginal Legend
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GoPro Timelapse - Casuarina Tree Haunting Wind Sounds - Sunset, Light, Shadows - Native Bird Sounds
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Planting The Seeds Of The Rock Sheoak - Allocasuarina Huegeliana - The Wheatbelt - Western Australia
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The Rock Sheoak, Salmon Gum & Jam Trees - Dumbleyung - The Wheatbelt - Western Australia
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The 10 Day Nesting Cycle of Baby Western Australian Willy Wag-Tail Chick Birds
ua-cam.com/video/9ROvq3ZaM5s/v-deo.html
This is the tree that I filmed the Willie Wagtail Babies grow up in... see here all episodes:
ua-cam.com/users/LostTreasureComAUsearch?query=willie+wagtails
My other videos on the Casuarina Sheoak Tree
www.youtube.com/@WildWarriorBill/search?query=casuarina
The Tree and Its Voices: What the Casuarina Says
The tree known popularly and scientifically as the casuarina has been consistently noticed for the sounds made as wind passes through its unusual foliage of needles and leaf scales. The acoustic experience of the casuarina - with subspecies found throughout Australia - has been represented as ‘haunted’, ‘grieving’ and voicing the secret language of initiates. This essay traces intriguing conceptual and aesthetic representations of the ‘voice’ and its listeners found across both Aboriginal and white Australian cultures in traditional English verse, Aboriginal prose narrative, accounts of cultural practices, and hybrid blends of all three. The essay adopts the notion of ‘listening to listening’ to set out the many forms of story the tree’s sounds generate their contribution to identifying places, and to suggest a specific Aboriginal song-line appears to underlie the divergent replications of tree-'voice' across southern Australia.
Source: www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/aslec-anz/article/viewArticle/2233
She oak foliage means that it is often mistaken for a pine tree, and like pine trees, she oaks have little cones full of seeds. For these reasons, she oaks attract many native birds. Black cockatoos like the she oak cones, while finches and rainbow lorikeets are more interested in the seed. Willie Wagtails, Pee Wees and Butcher birds all favour she oaks for nesting trees. Don suggests that large groups of she oaks set them off to best advantage, and foliage of a bank of she oaks creates a wonderful whistling sound when the wind blows through it.
She oak foliage is not made up of leaves, but rather very fine ridged branches or ‘branchlets’. Don showed that when a branchlet was pulled apart and looked at under a lens, you can see the tiny teeth-like points, which are the true leaves, at the end of each branchlet. The number of teeth will tell you which species the tree belongs to. These branchlets and reduced leaves give casuarinas a great advantage in the harsh Australian climate. The gaseous exchange that plants require to live occurs at stomates, which on other plants are located on the surface of leaves. In she oaks, the stomates are found on the inside furrows of the ridges of each branchlet, which means that little water is lost by the plant.
Water loss is further minimised by the plant as the branchlets fall to form a thick blanket underneath the tree. Branchlets do not poison the soil, as it was once thought, but rather act as a wonderfully rich mulch which suppresses weeds and helps to stabilise soil from erosion. The roots of the she oak actually produce a kind of free fertiliser by taking nitrogen from the air and putting it into the soil.
Source: www.burkesbackyard.com.au/fact-sheets/in-the-garden/trees-and-palms/casuarinas/#.VHyytzGUeSo
More Info:
Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casuarina

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Be good when mine flowers. My forest she oak flowered, litter red flowers.