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The largest indigenous tree of South Africa, and habitat for a rare colony of mottled spinetail swifts. Height: 22 m Stem size: 33.72 m Crown size: 34.3 m & 41.7 m 440 Sagole, Limpopo. 2 Adansonia digitata: Glencoe Baobab: Second-largest indigenous tree of South Africa.
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 ...
Pages in category "Trees of South Africa" The following 136 pages are in this category, out of 136 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
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.
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]
List of cycads of South Africa – Seed producing vascular plants of the division Cycadophyta recorded from South Africa; 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 ...
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.