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A wild fig tree growing out of a stone wall ruins

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

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

Close-up of branches spread of huge Ficus tree

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

Ficus capensis

Ficus capensis grows from a krans

Ficus craterostoma

Ficus tree at the Great Fish River

Flowering Kaffirboom

Garden giants 100 years old

  • Authors: South African Digest
  • Date: 1984-03-23
  • Subjects: Ficus (Plants) -- South Africa -- Photographs , Fig -- South Africa -- Photographs
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , clippings , ephemera
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/74190 , vital:30272
  • Description: Newspaper article: A living landmark in Pietermaritzburg's history, a grove of trees in the heart of the Botanic Gardens, is 100 years old this year. These gnarled giants, all planted in 1884 or earlier, are "probably the most representative selection of exotic trees in South Africa". according to the curator of the Gardens, Mr Brian Tarr. He sees education as the real function of a botanical garden. Picture: Mr Tarr among the roots of a giant Morton Bay fig planted more than 100 years ago. The Natal Witness. S.A.Digest. 1984-03-23.
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  • Date Issued: 1984-03-23

Green fruits of Ficus capensis

Large Ficus beside road between Impetu and Komga

Large Ficus tree at Kaffir drift

Large wild fig tree at Grey Hospital, King Williams Town

Large wild fig tree at Grey Hospital, King Williams Town

Large wild-fig leafless

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

Roots of wild fig grows down rock face at Great Kei drift, 1961

Shade for the farmyard

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