Wonderboom Nature Reserve
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The Wonderboom Nature Reserve is a 1 km², 200-hectare reserve that incorporates a section of the Magaliesberg range in the northern portion of the Pretoria metropole, South Africa. Its main attraction
The Wonderboom grove
The Wonderboom grove from a trail on the neighbouring hill
Ficus salicifolia
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The Wonderboom is a species of evergreen fig that ranges from the KwaZulu-Natal midlands northwards to tropical East Africa, the Saharan mountains, Arabian Peninsula, and Iran. It grows especially on
Wonderboom Nature Reserve
…River a reserve on 28 December 1949. The well-known 'Wonderboom' (Afrikaans: 'Wonder tree') is a dense grove of parent and daughter trees of the species Ficus salicifolia, that descended from a central bole of about a thousand years old. It is situated at the northern base of the Magaliesberg, and two circular walkways…
Ficus salicifolia, blare, Universiteit van Pretoria
Trees of the Wonderboom grove
Diagnostic rounded leaf base, regular lateral venation and unbranched, curved basal pair
The figs on short stalks