The casuarina forest

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  • Published 20031202
  • ISBN: 9780733313509
  • Extent: 236 pp
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The she-oak (casuarina) is a melancholy kind of tree, with feathery leaves that hang in fringes from short stems… [it] whispers and murmurs in the wind, making noises that early settlers compared 
to a harp.

 

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