Casuarina equisetifolia , Family-Casuarinaceae , Common name-Kasa, Casuarina, Whistling pine, කස , Origin-Introduced , Habit-Large tree , Ecology-DL, W ,Comment-Needle like leaves, cone like fruit., Referance-T&S 138
Maintained for the benefit of all naturalists interested in the flora of Sri Lanka. This page is dedicated to great people who documented & brought flora of Sri Lanka to the student as well as the lay Sri Lankans over the years, namely Henry Trimen, A H G Alston & Joseph Dalton Hooker(1893-1931), Susan George Pulimood & Anna K Joshua (1941),Dorothy Fernando (1953), T B Worthington (1958), M D Dassanayaka & F R Fosberg (1980), W D Clayton (1995), Mark Ashton, Savithri Gunathilake, Neela de Zoysa, Nimal Gunathilake & Siril Wijesundara (1997) and many more….
Scientific advisory team – Dr Asanga Wijethunga,
