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Erythrina caffra - Kaffirboom

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Salix babylonica - Weeping willow

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Sideroxylon inerme - White Milkwood

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Sideroxylon inerme - White Milkwood

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Erythrina caffra - kaffirboom

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

  • Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
  • Date: 1966-06-15
  • Subjects: Erythrina caffra- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
  • Language: English
  • Type: mixed material , photographs , clippings
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/119884 , vital:34793
  • Description: Caption "With Room to Stretch. Give 30 people three guesses and not many of them will guess that this tree a mammoth of its species, is a Dogplum, or Eckebergia, which is particularly familier to Port Elizabethans as a street tree. In parts of Mill Park, Dogplums that have been able to grow freely have become fine big trees. But the tree in the picture has the bulk of at least six of the biggest Mill Park. The picture was taken on Nocton Farm, 39 miles from Port Elizabeth on the Cape Road. It's a fair guess that the tree stood there over 100 years ago when the area was being developed for farming by the Conton Smiths, Fairbridges and Skeads. That's Mrs Gwen Skinner, chairman of the Wild Flower Society supplying foreground and scale. E.P. Herald. 15-06-1966"
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Podocarpus falcatus - Yellowwood

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Podocarpus falcatus - Yellowwood

- 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/10962/73588 , 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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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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Eucalyptus - Burgersdorp

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

  • Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
  • Date: 1965
  • Subjects: Burgersdorp (South Africa) -- Photographs , Eucalyptus -- South Africa -- Photographs , Historical markers -- South Africa
  • Language: English
  • Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/65813 , vital:28844
  • Description: Caption: “Stump of Blue Gum Tree at Burgersdorp. 1965. The plate bears the inscription: Blougomboom 90 Jaar oud. Grootste boom in N.O. Kaapland. Onder hierdie boom waterskema geopen 1898. Doodvonnis oor Burger P. Klopper uitgespreek in Anglo Boere oorlog. Gesamentlike Diens gehou met vorming van Unie van Suid Afrika. Gedenkplaat onthul met eeufees ossewatrek op Burgersdorp, 12 Oktober 1938.”
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Syringa

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

  • Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
  • Date: 1965
  • Subjects: Syringa- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
  • Language: English
  • Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/118113 , vital:34597
  • Description: Caption "1965 Reddersburg, O.F.S Syringa Tree bearing the plate: 'Seringboom 1859-1959'. It is said to have been planted when the town was established in 1859. Recently a branch broke from the tree and wrecked a car parked beneath.”
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Yellowwood

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Sideroxylon inerme - White Milkwood

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Protea multibracteata at the Magwa Falls, Lusikisiki

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Protea multibracteata at the Magwa Falls, Lusikisiki

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Protea multibracteata at the Magwa Falls, Lusikisiki

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Erythrina humeana

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

  • Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
  • Date: 1964-03-31
  • Subjects: Erythrina humeana -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
  • Language: English
  • Type: mixed material , photographs , clippings
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/122068 , vital:35204
  • Description: Caption "Flowering shrub is reminder of 1922 battle. Commandandt Frans Nel, Officer Commandoing Prince Alfred's Guard, examines the flowering umzintzani shrub in the regimental garden at the Drill Hall. Regimental historians believe it was this flower which caused the Xhosa tribesmen to name the Umzintzani battle scene the Valley of the Burning Bush. E. P. Herald 31-03-1964."
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Umtiza

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Cape chestnut

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

  • Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
  • Date: 1964
  • Subjects: Calodendrum capense -- South Africa -- Photographs
  • Language: English
  • Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/110456 , vital:33284
  • Description: Caption: "Cape Chestnut beside the National Road near Line Drift, Keiskamma River, King William's Town. Note how the tree is growing alone, yet it is a tree which normally likes to have others growing around it. The veld has been denuded of its dense valley bush along the stream. 1964." Additional handwritten note: "This tree was destroyed by road gangs in the early 1970's."
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Cape chestnut

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

  • Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
  • Date: 1964
  • Subjects: Calodendrum capense -- South Africa -- Photographs
  • Language: English
  • Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/110451 , vital:33285
  • Description: Caption: "Sprays of flowers of Cape Chestnut at the tree in the Keiskamma River Valley near Line Drift, King Williams Town. 1964." Additional handwritten note: "This tree was destroyed by road gangs in the early 1970's."
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