I was walking past this tree this morning and noticed something odd. My old man reckons it's a casurina or she-oak. It has pine-like needles, which you can see in picture 1. The trunk is smooth with whitish patches on it. There are a few of them on the property and they seem to grow strange twisted branches. The weird thing about this one is that it has a clump of leaves (as opposed to needles) growing out of one branch. Is this normal and does anyone know what sort of tree this actually is?