The beach is lined with tall coconut and casuarina trees. They build flat nests of grass in a baobab, dead coconut, casuarina or "Terminalia" tree. There are casuarina and coconut plantations along the coast. Stumps of palmyra tree and poles of casuarina (ironwood) were used for scaffolding. It is thickly vegetated, mainly by the remains of a coconut plantation and casuarina trees. The casuarina is an invasive species to the Bahamas. The restaurant was Il Sole at The Villa Casa Casuarina. The wood is from the species Casuarina equisetifolia. At one time, all species were placed in the genus "Casuarina". The beautiful firetail mainly feeds on grass seed and "Casuarina" and "Melaleuca" seeds. Strong also worked on the grounds of Versace's house in Miami, the Casa Casuarina. Like the closely related genus "Casuarina", they are commonly called sheoaks or she-oaks. Prisoners were moved to a new metropolitan maximum security prison at Casuarina. The most noticeable trees are pterocarpus, Terminalia, Anogeissus and Logustroeinai and Casuarina. Above , they found "Dodonaea viscosa" flowering plants dominated by "Casuarina" trees.