Wednesday 27 February 2019

Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens, South Africa

Now while walking around the Kirstenbosch Gardens we saw this tree called the Wood Cyad which is the only one individual male tree that shares the exact same genes as the original wild tree which is extinct now and even though throughout the world there are 500 plants, all of them come from basal suckers or offsets from the original clump discovered by John Medley Wood but none have got the wild gene.

The Kirstenbosch specimen is a sucker from one of the Durban Botanic Garden plants, and was planted in Kirstenbosch in 1916. More interesting information can be found HERE.   The other images are of other parts of the garden






Many thanks for your visit and also for your comments.

7 comments:

  1. Hello, pretty gardens and photos. Wishing you a happy day!

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  2. More wonderful memories for me. Thanks Diane

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  3. That looks like a lovely place to wander around and soak in nature’s beauty. Fascinating about that tree.

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  4. Gorgeous! It does look like something from an ancient jungle.

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  5. Beautiful park. I like the crooked tree most

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