Allocasuarina torulosa (Rose She-Oak or Forest Oak) is a tree which grows in sub-rainforest (just outside the main forest area) of Queensland

Queensland

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 and New South Wales

New South Wales

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, Australia

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. Originally described as Casuarina torulosa by William Aiton

William Aiton

William Aiton was a Scottish botanist.Aiton was born near Hamilton. Having been regularly trained to the profession of a gardener, he travelled to London in 1754, and became assistant to Philip Miller, then superintendent of the Chelsea Physic Garden...

, it was moved to its current genus in 1982 by Australian botanist Lawrie Johnson

Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson

Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson, known as Lawrie Johnson, was an Australian taxonomic botanist. He worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, for the whole of his professional career, as a botanist , Director and Honorary Research Associate .Alone or in collaboration with colleagues, he...

. It is the type species

Type species

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 of the genus Allocasuarina

Allocasuarina

Allocasuarina is a genus of trees in the flowering plant family Casuarinaceae. They are endemic to Australia, occurring primarily in the south. Like the closely related genus Casuarina, they are commonly called sheoaks or she-oaks, they are notable for their long, segmented branchlets that...

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The timber is reddish pink to brown. It is prized by woodworkers and woodturners as a rare and exotic timber, often used in wood turnings, knife handles and other specialist items.

It grows from seed, and cut or broken trees will often regenerate from the trunk.

The Rose Sheoak has the largest contraction along the grain (12%) of any Australian wood and needs to be dried carefully to get full value as a useful timber.