The Wonderboom, Ficus pretoriae, north of Pretoria, April 1965

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

  • Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
  • Date: 1965-04
  • Subjects: Ficus (Plants) -- South Africa -- Photographs , Fig -- South Africa -- Photographs
  • Language: English
  • Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/73588 , vital:30207
  • Description: Caption: "The Wonderboom, Ficus pretoriae, north of Pretoria. April 1965. The central parent trunk was 12 ½ feet in diameter. The secondary growth consists of 7 separate daughter groups but two of these form grand-daughters which form a third circle around the central parent. The whole canopy is given as about 165 feet in diameter, and about 75 feet high. The measurements were 186 feet. The mother tree consists of 5 close-growing stems and her canopy is about 99 feet overall. A notice at the site says that this tree was probably able to develop in this way through being held sacred and dedicated by burial to a chief and then given tribal protection. Although it is large overall it attains this by virtue of the daughter and grand-daughters groups. The fig tree at Kaffir drift has 5 central stems and no daughter groups. It is about 168 feet in diameter of canopy, i.e. without the secondary groups. The big fig tree in Bathurst village has only one central stem yet its canopy diameter is 162 feet in diameter, i.e. from one stem."
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  • Date Issued: 1965-04

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

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Large Ficus tree at Kaffir drift

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Ficus tree at the Great Fish River

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Ficus capensis grows from a krans

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Large wild fig tree at Grey Hospital, King Williams Town

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

The Wonderboom, Ficus pretoriae, north of Pretoria, April 1965

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

  • Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
  • Date: 1965-04
  • Subjects: Ficus (Plants) -- South Africa -- Photographs , Fig -- South Africa -- Photographs
  • Language: English
  • Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/73569 , vital:30205
  • Description: Caption: "The Wonderboom, Ficus pretoriae, north of Pretoria. April 1965. The central parent trunk was 12 ½ feet in diameter. The secondary growth consists of 7 separate daughter groups but two of these form grand-daughters which form a third circle around the central parent. The whole canopy is given as about 165 feet in diameter, and about 75 feet high. The measurements were 186 feet. The mother tree consists of 5 close-growing stems and her canopy is about 99 feet overall. A notice at the site says that this tree was probably able to develop in this way through being held sacred and dedicated by burial to a chief and then given tribal protection. Although it is large overall it attains this by virtue of the daughter and grand-daughters groups. The fig tree at Kaffir drift has 5 central stems and no daughter groups. It is about 168 feet in diameter of canopy, i.e. without the secondary groups. The big fig tree in Bathurst village has only one central stem yet its canopy diameter is 162 feet in diameter, i.e. from one stem."
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  • Date Issued: 1965-04

A wild fig tree growing out of a stone wall ruins

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

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

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Shade for the farmyard

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Streamers of fruiting branches of Ficus capensis

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Large wild-fig leafless

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Wild fig tree growing from under the branches of a palm

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Large Ficus beside road between Impetu and Komga

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

The spread of the Ficus tree at Kaffir drift

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

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

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Ficus craterostoma

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Young wild fig tree growth

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Wild fig tree on old golf course, King Williams Town

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Close-up of branches spread of huge Ficus tree

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

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