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Assegaaihout

  • Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
  • Date: 1980
  • Subjects: Curtisia dentata -- South Africa -- Photographs
  • Language: English
  • Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/110564 , vital:33306
  • Description: Caption: "Coppiced regrowth of Curtisia dentata Assegaaihout on near Sidbury, Albany. 1980. In a small patch west of the homestead on Assegaaibosch farm. Growing from an old trunk in the forest. This might have been the forest with Assegaaihout mentioned by early travellers in the late 1770's as a stopping place."
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Assegaaihout

  • Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
  • Date: 1980
  • Subjects: Curtisia dentata -- South Africa -- Photographs
  • Language: English
  • Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/110559 , vital:33305
  • Description: Caption: "Coppiced regrowth of Curtisia dentata Assegaaihout on 'Assegaaibosch, near Sidbury. 1980. In a small patch of forest in kloof west of old homestead. Growing from an old dead treetrunk there. This might be the old forest with Assegaaihout from which the farm and river took its name."
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Dead Yellowwood tree

Ptaeroxylon obliquum - Sneezewood

The Herald's ghost pines

Cycads plundered

  • Authors: South African digest
  • Date: 1979-06-08
  • Subjects: Cycads -- South Africa -- Pictorial works
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , clippings , ephemera
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/73064 , vital:30148
  • Description: Newspaper article: "Cycads, South Africa's precious living fossils, are being stolen and sold to smart-set gardeners in South Africa, Japan and the United States reports The Daily News. Plants of one rare species, Encephelatus Woodii, have been offered for sale in the United States for R5 000. Botanists say cycads sell for R26 a centimeter overseas, so that a waist-high plant fetches about R2 500. Cycads are very slow-growing. Plants germinated 12 years ago at the Natal Botanical Gardens have a stem the size of a small football. Hence plants of a reasonable size may be hundreds of years old, while the rootstock from which the plants grow may be thousands of years old. There are 28 species in South Africa and seven occur in Natal. They are known in Afrikaans as Broodboom (bread tree) because Hottentots were said to make bread from the pith, after it had been left to rot for two months. A spokesman for the Natal Parks Board said the authorities could not prevent exploitation. Convictions for removing protected plants were difficult to obtain as it was almost impossible to prove where the plants came from unless the culprits were caught red-handed. When found to be in illegal possession, plants ere confiscated and planted out.Miss Jane Baxter, Natal Parks Board public relations officer, dwarfed by a giant cycad, Encephelatus Natalensis. This fine plant is thought to be between 150 and 200 years old. The Daily News. S. A. Digest. 8 June 1979."
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Ocotea bullata - Black Stinkwood

Podocarpus falcatus - Yellowwood

Sneezewood

  • Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
  • Date: 1979-05-25
  • Subjects: Ptaeroxylon obliquum -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
  • Language: English
  • Type: mixed material , photographs , clippings
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/116742 , vital:34434
  • Description: Caption "This waterwheel made from sneezewood, which could be one of the oldest in South Africa, has been rebuilt in Pietermaritzburg. It was installed by the Voortrekker leader, Andries Pretorius, at his farmnear Weenen and in 1938 was placed in the garden of the Weenen Museum. It was brought to Pietermarizburg for rebuilding and restoration. As sneezewood is rare in South Africa, trees were specially cut and cured in Transkei to restore the wheel. The Natal Witness. S.A. Digest. 25-05-1979. ”
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Podocarpus falcatus - Yellowwood

Podocarpus falcatus - Yellowwood

Extracts from two old records regarding Strelitzia reginae in the Eastern Cape Province

Salix babylonica - Weeping willow

Aloe ferox with striated leaves

  • Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
  • Date: 1978
  • Subjects: Aloe -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape -- Photographs
  • Language: English
  • Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/72798 , vital:30115
  • Description: Caption: "Aloe ferox with striated leaves, probably diseased. Normal plants behind. On farm 'Clifton', 19 km NW Grahamstown, near Pigott Bridge, Fish River valley. Plant later removed to farm garden. 1978."
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Oak Tree

  • Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
  • Date: 1977-11-19
  • Subjects: Trees -- Port Elizabeth, South Africa , Oak trees -- Port Elizabeth, South Africa , Adler, Nathaniel
  • Language: English
  • Type: jpg , ephemera , clippings
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/71866 , vital:29957
  • Description: Typed note: "Oak Tree. As at 1977.11.19. In the northwestern part of St. George's Park, Port Elizabeth against the fence of the granstand at the Union Cricket Ground is an oak tree bearing a plate: 'This tree was planted by Nathaniel Adler, Esq. on the occasion of the visit of H.R.H. Prince Alfred, August 6th 1860'. This tree has therefore been there fro 117 years, but it is a very poor specimen of oak with a weak spread of branches, certainly not a good example for its age. It is typical oak".
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Sideroxylon inerme - White Milkwood

Yellowwood

  • Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
  • Date: 1977-07
  • Subjects: Podocarpus falcatus -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
  • Language: English
  • Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/116897 , vital:34456
  • Description: Caption "Large Yellowwood planted 1935 in grounds of St Andrews' Preparatory School, Grahamstown. The lefthand tree, Erythrina caffra, was planted at the same time. Taken in winter when the yellowwood's leaves had thinned somewhat. July 1977”
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Yellowwood

  • Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
  • Date: 1977-05
  • Subjects: Podocarpus falcatus -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
  • Language: English
  • Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/116916 , vital:34459
  • Description: Caption "Common or Outeniqua Yellowwood, P. falcatus in garden of Prof. J. V. L. Rennie, 7 Oatlands Road, Grahamstown. May 1977. The stone wall hides the lower trunk but helps show size. Sapling was dug by the Rennies at Pirie Forest, King Williams Town, in 1945 when about 30cm high. Thus, in about 22 years in photo in 1977. The bole diameter at 1 metre from the ground was 304mm. Photo taken from the corner of Oatlands Road.”
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Yellowwood

  • Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
  • Date: 1977-05
  • Subjects: Podocarpus falcatus -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
  • Language: English
  • Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/116988 , vital:34466
  • Description: Caption "Common or Outeniqua Yellowwood, P. falcatus, outside 36 Somerset Street, Grahamstown, May 1977, house but one from northern corner of High Street. Prof. J. V. L. Rennie, 1977.04.11, said that the tree had been planted by a Dr. Louw, local dentist who wanted a tree in front of his house. Rennie knew the tree to have been planted soon after he came to Grahamstown in 1931, say 1932-34. Thus in photo is about 43-45 years old. Tree might have bee topped by municipal workers at some time. Bole diameter at 1 metre to the ground = 406 mm on 10.05.1977.”
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Yellowwood

  • Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
  • Date: 1977-05
  • Subjects: Podocarpus falcatus- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
  • Language: English
  • Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/116933 , vital:34460
  • Description: Caption "Common or Outeniqua Yellowwood, P. falcatus in garden of Prof. J. V. L. Rennie, 7 Oatlands Road, Grahamstown. May 1977.Brought from Pirie Forest King Williams Town in 1945 when 30 mm high. Thus, in about 22 years in photo in 1977. Bole diameter at 1 metre from the ground = 304 mm. Photo taken of house, in Oatlands Road.”
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