Captured in this morning’s dawn light, three she-oaks stand glowing.
The keen eye will discern that the two she-oaks on the right are coloured with a dusting of orange, while the one on the left is a bright green.
Allocasuarina verticillata. Latin for the type of she-oak that grows around Windgrove on its nutrient poor rocky hillsides. It has both a male and female tree with the male flowering in long drooping golden-orange spikes this time of year. The air borne pollen then travels over to the female tree and pollinates a tiny red flower resulting in a cone just smaller than the average walnut.
On the branches of the this female she-oak, she wears the nuts.
