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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.
South Africa: Real yellowwood: Podocarpus latifolius [65] South Korea: Hibiscus syriacus, Pinus densiflora: Hibiscus syriacus, "Pinus densiflora" Sri Lanka: Sri Lankan ironwood: Mesua nagassarium Sweden: Ornäs birch: Betula pendula 'Dalecarlica' Tanzania: African blackwood: Dalbergia melanoxylon Thailand: Ratchaphruek: Cassia fistula Ukraine ...
The tallest tree in South Africa and Africa. And the tallest plant tree in the world. Stand of trees planted in 1906 (118–119 years old) by forestry pioneer AK Eastwood. Previous tallest tree in this stand fell in 2006. Height: 79 m; 78.5 m; Stem size: 3.2 m; 4.28 m; Crown size: 20.7 m; 22.7 m; 293 Woodbush Plantation, Haenertsburg, Limpopo
It is now found in gardens throughout South Africa, where it is grown as an elegant ornamental tree. It is a protected tree in South Africa. Although it is the real yellowwood tree that is officially South Africa's national tree, the yellowwoods as a group – including Henkel's yellowwood – are felt to hold that position in practise.
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.
Flag of South Africa since 1994. National Flag of the Union – authorised by the Union Flags and Nationality Act 1927, and introduced in 1928. Renamed the "National Flag of the Republic" in 1961, [7] it was used until 1994.
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 ...
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]