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Starting again with tree landmarks

  • Authors: Babiana
  • Date: 1972-09-06
  • Subjects: Ficus (Plants) -- South Africa -- Photographs , Fig -- South Africa -- Photographs
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , clippings , ephemera
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/73084 , vital:30151
  • Description: Newspaper article: "This huge Moreton Bay wild fig tree in the Port Elizabeth Club grounds (the tree with the biggest spread in the city?) is no doubt one of the "nice lot of seedlings" raised from seed in 1882 by Mr John Wilson. Four were planted in the corners of Trinder Square when it was laid out as a garden in 1888. As the ohter Ficus macrophylla seedlings were distributed "far and wide," the great landmark trees at the corner of Main Road and 17th Avenue, Walmer, were probably from the same lot. (Macro-phylla means long-leafed of big-leafed.)"
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  • Date Issued: 1972-09-06

Plant may send spire toppling

  • Authors: Eastern Province Herald
  • Date: 1959-01-20
  • Subjects: Ficus (Plants) -- South Africa -- Photographs , Fig -- South Africa -- Photographs
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , clippings , ephemera
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/73099 , vital:30152
  • Description: Newspaper article: "Plant may send spire toppling. Few of the people who attend services at Grahamstown's historical Methodist Commemoration Church know that one of the five spires which top the old building is in danger of being destroyed - by a plant. The plant, a wild fig which takes root in any foreign substance and grows without soil, is slowly sending its long, leaf-tipped shoots along the delicate cement-work of the spire".
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  • Date Issued: 1959-01-20

Wild fig trees - King Williams Town, 1959

Wild fig tree in winter on old golf course, King Williams Town

Wild figs used as shade at seaside hotel

Wild fig tree on old golf course, King Williams Town

Large Ficus beside road between Impetu and Komga

Large wild fig tree at Grey Hospital, King Williams Town

Ficus capensis grows from a krans

Trunks of the huge Ficus tree at the Great Fish River

Ficus tree at the Great Fish River

Green fruits of Ficus capensis

The aerial roots of Wild fig corner, King Williams Town, 1959

Flowering Kaffirboom

Ficus craterostoma

Truncheons of Wild Fig sprouting near King Williams Town, 1959

Wild fig planted at De Hoop, Bredasdorp

Arch of Wild Fig trees over Commercial Road, East London, 1959

A wild fig tree growing out of a stone wall ruins

Congealed aerial roots of a Wild Fig tree, King Williams Town, 1959

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