Agoho

Casuarina equisetifolia, commonly known as coastal she-oak, horsetail she-oak, ironwood, beach sheoak, beach casuarina, whistling tree or Australian pine is a species of flowering plant in the family Casuarinaceae and is native to the Western Pacific, Australia, New Guinea, Southeast Asia and India. It is a small to medium-sized, monoecious tree with scaly or furrowed bark on older specimens, drooping branchlets, the leaves reduced to scales in whorls of 7 or 8, the fruit 10–24 mm (0.4–0.9 in) long containing winged seeds (samaras) 6–8 mm (0.2–0.3 in) long.

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Sa Tagalog

Ang Agoho, na tinatawag ring Aguho, Aroo o Agoo (pangalang pang-agham: Casuarina equisetifolia; Ingles: whistling pine, beach she-oak) ay isang puno sa saring Casuarina, at isa sa mga punong likas na natatagpuan sa Pilipinas. Kahawig ito ng punong pino (pine tree). Natatagpuan ito mula sa sto tomas batangas at Vietnam at sa kabuuan ng Malesia pasilangan tungong French Polynesia, New Caledonia, at Vanuatu, saka patimog tungong Australia.

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Recorded in the Philippines

GBIF holds 266 records of this plant from the Philippines. The ones with map coordinates fall in 27 provinces, most often Cagayan (6), Quezon (6), Aklan (4), Palawan (4), Benguet (3), Dinagat Islands (3), Laguna (3), Bohol (2), and 19 more.

Counts from GBIF occurrence records, October 2026. They include planted trees and garden plants, and a province with no records may only lack collectors.