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Newly discovered and one of the big 5 biggest indigenous trees in South Africa. Height: 23.5 m Stem size: 24.15 m; 7.85 m & 2.14 m Crown size: 34.4 m & 30.8 m 383 Ga-Ratjeke Village, Limpopo 58 Quercus robur (English oak) Akkerdraai Oak Tree
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.
It would take 18–20 people to encircle the tree with open hands. To view the tree, there is an entrance fee of R 50 per adult and R 25 per child. 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 ...
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This listing contains taxa of plants in the division Cycadophyta, recorded from South Africa. Cycads / ˈ s aɪ k æ d z / are seed plants with a very long fossil history that were formerly more abundant and more diverse than they are today. They typically have a stout and woody trunk with a crown of large, hard and stiff, evergreen leaves.
Mapping of the distribution and extent of natural vegetation of South Africa started in 1918 when the Botanical Survey of the Union of South Africa was established. Maps by Pole-Evans (1936), Acocks (1953), and Low and Rebelo (1996) preceded the current system, which is the combined effort of participants from various centres in the country. [2]
In one study the tree was carbon-dated and found to be an estimated 1,060 years old, plus or minus 75 years. [1] Results of other studies have however suggested much higher ages. [2] The tree used to bloom profusely in spring, at some stage providing a refuge to two pairs of owls, and other bird species. Most of the tree died in 2016 and 2017. [3]
It is native to the mesic savannas of Africa south of the equator, from KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa, in the south to Tanzania in the north. It is a native tree in South Africa, eSwatini, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Angola, Zambia and Tanzania. It is a protected tree in South Africa. [4]