Casuarina equisetifolia subsp.incana coast she-oak No Queensland beach would be complete without it's backdrop of graceful Casuarinas, and no Queensland beach would probably exist without their tenacious hold on the fragile foreshore dunes providing a first line of defence against the cyclones and storms that seasonally lash our coast.
Young casuarinas along the high tide line at Sandy Point
Male flowers at the end of a branchlet
Mature seeds
Pandanus tectorius pandanus, screw pine Pandanus is another iconic Queensland foreshore plant and performs a similar stabilisation function to the Casuarina, it's an extremely hardy plant which can take root and flourish among bare rocks on windswept headlands
