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The Sagole Baobab (also Sagole Big Tree, Venda: Muri kunguluwa, lit. 'tree that roars', or Muvhuyu wa Makhadzi) is a Champion Tree and the largest baobab tree (Adansonia digitata) in South Africa. It is located east from Tshipise, in Vendaland, Limpopo Province and has a trunk diameter 10.8 metres, circumference 32.89 metres. [1]
Diameter. 10.64 m (34.9 ft) Date seeded. 950AD ± 75. 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.
Champion Trees of South Africa. 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.
Adansonia digitata, the African baobab, is the most widespread tree species of the genus Adansonia, the baobabs, and is native to the African continent and the southern Arabian Peninsula (Yemen, Oman). These are long-lived pachycauls; radiocarbon dating has shown some individuals to be over 2,000 years old.
Western North America. [1][2] It reached 116.07 metres (380.8 ft) in 2019. [3] The second and third tallest trees, both redwoods, were also found at Redwood National Park in 2006 when Hyperion was found, and were named Helios 114.7 metres (376 ft) and Icarus 113.1 metres (371 ft) tall (in 2006). [3] Himalayan cypress (Cupressus torulosa) 102.3.
The Big Limb Tree Atwell Mill Grove, Sequoia National Park, California [118] Za (Adansonia za) 2.7 9 The Ampanihy Baobab north of Morombe, Madagascar [55] Thickest limb on a dicot African baobab (Adansonia digitata) 2.4 8 The Big Tree Messina Nature Reserve, Limpopo Province, South Africa [119] [120] Coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) 2.1 7 ...
The tree has since split into two parts, so the widest individual trunk may now be that of the Sunland Baobab, or Platland tree, also in South Africa. The diameter of this tree at ground level is 9.3 m (31 ft) and its circumference at breast height is 34 m (112 ft). [27]
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.