Another term for casuarina.On hillocks trailing she-oaks, olives, myrtle and prickly pear, circular ruins rise up, like razed windmills....
They were the only things not making a racket behind the beach today, because the she-oaks, ti-trees and a few other things are in full flower and the circus has come to town.
The road becomes a strip of bitumen flanked at first by banana trees, then by an array of she-oaks.