Ficus capensis grows from a krans
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1961-10
- Subjects: Ficus (Plants) -- South Africa -- Photographs , Fig -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/73631 , vital:30211
- Description: Caption: "Wild fig, F. capensis, grows out of krans at Great Kei River drift between Bolo and Tsomo. Oct. 1961."
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A wild fig tree growing out of a stone wall ruins
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1982
- Subjects: Ficus (Plants) -- South Africa -- Photographs , Fig -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/73521 , vital:30200
- Description: Caption: "A wild fig tree growing out of the stone wall ruins of the fort at Kaffir Drift on the Great Fish River, Bathurst district. 1982. The site of the old fort is now a police station."
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Roots of wild fig grows down rock face at Great Kei drift, 1961
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1961
- Subjects: Ficus (Plants) -- South Africa -- Photographs , Fig -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/73673 , vital:30215
- Description: Caption: "Roots of wild fig, F. capensis, growing down rock face at Great Kei drift. 1961."
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The Wonderboom, Ficus pretoriae, north of Pretoria, April 1965
- 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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Wild fig grows from a krans
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1961-10
- Subjects: Ficus (Plants) -- South Africa -- Photographs , Fig -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/73647 , vital:30213
- Description: Caption: "Wild fig, F. capensis, growing from krans at Great Kei River drift between Bolo and Tsomo. Oct. 1961."
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The Wonderboom, Ficus pretoriae, north of Pretoria, April 1965
- 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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