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Can someone help us? Is this a type of She Oak? These needles are more or less blue grey and thicker than normal, this was collected by a mate under powerlines and was collected in the Goulburn area of NSW.
Thanks Mick

Hey Mick,

I would say its a Callitris. I will be interested to see how it goes as I have only ever collected small ones of these and then had only limited success.

There has been numerous posts on Callitris and the trouble with collecting them as they usually have no fine roots near the trunk, rather sending a tap root down a long way before any fine roots start.

If you have some fine roots on it you may be more successful. Wish you all the best with it

Matt

Thanks Matt I will look it up

Hard to tell from the photos.
Alocasuarina stricta - Drooping sheoak has quite thick branchlets (needles) but is usually yellow/ green rather than blue. Its distribution should cover the Goulburn area.

Bulloak (Allo?)casuarina luehmannii is another one with quite thick branchlets and grows over much of inland NSW, Vic and Qld. but, again, is usually dull green.

The blueish foliage does sound a bit more like Cypress pine/ Murray pine - Callitris columellaris- but it usually grows further west on the flatter plains.

The bark on the tree you have looks well developed. Hope it survives the transplant.

Thanks for the info, Shibui