These prints are also available at the Frances Keevil Gallery in Sydney, Emporium Botanica in Melbourne and Gallery 126 in Armidale NSW
The sheoaks, bull oaks, forest oaks, swamp oaks and river oaks are so-called because of the appearance of their timbers which have been used for shingles, fencing, firewood and cabinetry. The female inflorescences in these plants all develop into distinctive, woody cones which, together with the fine, needle-like ‘leaves’, add to the pine-tree-like appearance of these trees and shrubs.
The Casuarinaceae family of plants comprises some 96 species in 4 genera, found from SE Asia, through Papua New Guinea and Australia to the Pacific Islands. Sixty-five species are found in Australia. Representatives of all four genera and all the major groups within the largest genus, Allocasuarina, are illustrated in these two prints. One genus, Ceuthostoma, is restricted to South East Asia and the genus Gymnostoma is represented in Australia by only one species (illustrated, Gymnostoma australianum).
All species are illustrated three times life-size in these prints.
