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Widdringtonia wallichii, Clanwilliam cedar or Clanwilliam cypress, previously Widdringtonia cedarbergensis [3] [4] is a species of Widdringtonia native to South Africa, where it is endemic to the Cederberg Mountains northeast of Cape Town in Western Cape Province.
A shingle roof in Zakopane, Poland. With an area of 6000 m 2 (1½ acres), it was one of the largest wooden shingle roofs in Europe. A roof’s shingles are a roof covering consisting of individual overlapping elements. These elements are typically flat, rectangular shapes laid in courses from the bottom edge of the roof up, with each successive ...
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.
Historically, wooden shingles were usually thin (3 ⁄ 8 to 3 ⁄ 4 in or 10 to 19 mm), relatively narrow (3 to 8 in or 76 to 203 mm), of varying length (14 to 36 in or 360 to 910 mm), and almost always planed or knifed smooth. The traditional method for making wooden shingles before the 19th century was to rive (hand split) them from straight ...
These trees range in size up to some 1.5m DBH, such as Cedrus deodara, the Himalayan Cedar. Hobbyists will seek out even small pieces of highly valued timber, such as Buxus macowanii, the South African counterpart of Buxus sempervirens, for turnery or the making of boxes and small items. Despite the wealth of useful woods available in Gauteng ...
Widdringtonia is a genus of coniferous trees in the Cupressaceae (cypress family). The name was Austrian botanist Stephan Endlicher's way of honouring an early expert on the coniferous forests of Spain, Capt. Samuel Edward Widdrington (1787–1856).
Cedarville is a town in the Alfred Nzo District Municipality of Eastern Cape, South Africa. A village at the foot of the Cedarberg from which it gets its name, it lies 48 km north-west of Kokstad and 278 km from Pietermaritzburg. In 1912, a village management board was established. [2]
New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg, South Africa: 23 November 2007 Australia: 16 October 2011 ‡ England: Sahara Park Newlands, Cape Town, South Africa: 19 February 2016 ‡ Australia: Sahara Stadium, Kingsmead, Durban, South Africa: 4 March 2016: 4 wickets West Indies: New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg, South Africa: 18 January 2008 ...