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The Big Tree, an 800 year old Outeniqua yellowwood at Tsitsikamma National Park. One of five camphor trees (Cinnamomum camphora) at Vergelegen, Somerset West.These trees were planted between 1700 and 1706 by the then governor of the Cape Colony, Willem Adriaan van der Stel.
This became the stoutest tree in South Africa after two other large baobabs, the Glencoe and Sunland Baobabs, collapsed in 2009 and 2016 respectively. The Sagole Baobab has the largest size and retains the appearance of a single tree. It is 20.5 metres (67 ft) high with a crown diameter of 38.2 metres (125 ft). [2]
Podocarpus latifolius (real yellowwood, broad-leaved yellowwood, or South African yellowwood, Afrikaans: Opregte-geelhout, Northern Sotho: Mogôbagôba, Xhosa: Umcheya, Zulu: Umkhoba) [2] is a large evergreen tree up to 35 m high and 3 m trunk diameter, in the conifer family Podocarpaceae; it is the type species of the genus Podocarpus.
Sunland Baobab (also Platland Baobab, Mooketsi Baobab, Tree Bar, Big Baobab or Pub Tree) is a well-known enormous baobab (Adansonia digitata) in South Africa.The tree is located on Sunland Farm (Platland Farm), near Modjadjiskloof (previously known as Duiwelskloof), Limpopo Province.
Marakele is home to the big five (buffalo did not exist in the park, but 20 disease-free buffalo (nine cows and eleven bulls) were re-introduced on 15 October 2013) [1] as well as sixteen species of antelopes and over 250 species of birds, including the largest colony of Cape vultures in the world (around 800 breeding pairs) [citation needed].
This is a list of Southern African trees, shrubs, suffrutices, geoxyles and lianes, and is intended to cover Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. [1] The notion of 'indigenous' is of necessity a blurred concept, and is clearly a function of both time and political boundaries.
Baobab tree in Kruger National Park, South Africa is of the same species (Adansonia digitata) as the Glencoe Baobab. Glencoe Baobab is the stoutest and second largest baobab (Adansonia digitata L.) after the Sagole Baobab [1] in South Africa. It is possibly the stoutest tree in the world.
The trunk can be 2 to 3 m (6 ft 7 in to 9 ft 10 in) wide, and is gray-brown to reddish. It is smooth and ridged on young stems, but increasingly flaky on older trunks. [5] The leaves are arranged in spirals on the branches. They are small and narrow, up to 4.5 cm (1.8 in) long by about 6 mm (1 ⁄ 4 in) wide. They are green to yellowish ...