Trees of significance in South Africa
The Big Tree, an 800 year old Outeniqua yellowwood at Tsitsikamma National Park.
One of five camphor trees (Cinnamomum camphora) at Vergelegen, Somerset West. These trees were planted between 1700 and 1706 by the then governor of the Cape Colony, Willem Adriaan van der Stel. The five trees are over 26 metres in height and each of their trunks have a girth of 7 metres (measured at a height of 3 metres)
Champion Trees in South Africa are individual trees or groves that have been identified as having special significance, and therefore protected under Section 12(1) of the National Forests Act of 1998 by the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment.
