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Arderne Gardens, Claremont, Cape Town, Western Cape 38 Pinus halepensis (Aleppo pine) Arderne Aleppo Pine One of the largest and oldest trees in Arderne Gardens. [b] Height: 35 m Stem size: 5.46 m Crown size: 31.85 m & 32 m 241 Arderne Gardens, Claremont, Cape Town, Western Cape 39 Agathis robusta (Queensland kauri) Arderne Kauri
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.
Common names include common yellowwood, bastard yellowwood, outeniqua yellowwood, [2] African pine tree, weeping yew, [3] Afrikaans: outeniekwageelhout, kalander, Sotho: mogôbagôba, Xhosa: umkhoba and Zulu: umsonti. [4] It is widespread, in some areas abundant, and not considered threatened, [1] but it is a protected tree in South Africa. [4]
The species was introduced into North Africa millennia ago, and is also naturalized in the Canary Islands, South Africa and New South Wales. Stone pines have been used and cultivated for their edible pine nuts since prehistoric times. They are widespread in horticultural cultivation as ornamental trees, planted in gardens and parks around the ...
Lists of flowering plants of South Africa – List of lists of flowering plants recorded from South Africa; List of hornworts of South Africa – Non-vascular spore-bearing plants in the division Anthocerotophyta recorded from South Africa; List of liverworts of South Africa – Non-vascular land plants with a gametophyte-dominant life cycle ...
This forest ecosystem is a subtype of the general Afromontane forest, which can be found across Africa as far north as Ethiopia.However, it is distinguished from other types of forests in Southern Africa by its relatively distinct range of species and its being confined to the far south-western tip of Africa – separated from the other forested areas to the east and north.
Ocotea bullata, (stinkwood or black stinkwood, Afrikaans: Stinkhout, Xhosa: Umhlungulu, Zulu: Umnukane) [2] [3] is a species of flowering tree native to South Africa. It produces very fine and valuable timber which was formerly much sought after to make furniture.
This is an alphabetical list of useful timber trees, indigenous (cultivated and natural) and exotic, growing in the Gauteng area of South Africa.These trees range in size up to some 1.5m DBH, such as Cedrus deodara, the Himalayan Cedar.