South Africa's National Tree & How to sow Yellowwoods Afrocarpus latifolius
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
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Ever wondered what South Africa's National Tree is? Well, here is one focusing on the Real Yellowwood or Afrocarpus latifolius (formerly Podocarpus latifolius). With this video I show you how to germinate Yellowwoods, the most important indigenous Timber Tree in South Africa. It is also protected because it was nearly logged to extinction after the country's inception.
It is also one of South Africa's largest trees and is exquisite when grown in suitable conditions or when looked after. Yellowwoods can reach dizzying heights of 40m or more and can easily live in excess of 1000 years. It is though more common for them to reach no more than 5m to 10m in height. It is one of the conifers of the African continent, which are naturally few and far between.
Personally, my favourite is A. falcatus or the Outeniqua Yellowwood although all of the four species found in South Africa are incredibly beautiful and should be planted more in gardens around the country. They are slow to establish but if you care for them and nurture them it is absolutely worth it.
For those who did not know about the National Tree List of South Africa below is a link as well as some more information on Yellowwoods:
National Tree and Plant List South Africa
www.treetags.c...
Protected Trees of South Africa
www.gov.za/sit...
Afrocarpus latifolius
en.wikipedia.o...
Afrocarpus latifolius
wildflowernurs...
Trees SA.org
treesa.org/podo...
Hope you enjoyed this one. This channel really is my therapy. I love sharing my love of plants. Well, great, see you soon.
Keep Gardening and being mindful.
Lotsa love
Gabe
Loved this❤❤❤ feel like I could grow a tree now
Wow! Thanks, that is a really great comment. Made me smile.
Laaaker video man! We need more of this information. So little about SA plants in general.
Woow beautiful, l'll definitely try this. Thanks my buta
You are welcome! We should all be planting more trees 💚
Brilliant thanks
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You're welcome!🌍
AN INTERESTING PRESENTATION.
Ahhh, thank you June, I trust you mean 'good interesting'
Very informative thank you! :)
My pleasure, I'm glad you enjoyed it.😉
I actually find that yellowwood species such as henkelii, latifolius and falcatus do very well as street trees. They are very drought hardy and although slower growing when out of their forests they do well in summer rainfall climes.
Thanks for you comment. This is true, by comparison there are certain species that do better than others.
Hello Gabriel, the seeds you are planting are from the female trees, right? But don't they need to be germinated first? Then, where can I come and buy trees from you? Btw we had met at the Mare's market by Joe-:)
Hello!
I have some of the very saplings left from this round of germination. Stop by the nursery. Am away but will be back in a few days.😉
Thanks for this.. my seeds turned brown and disintegrated.
Hi Elaine
You are so welcome. Roughly a month & a half or so from now would be the perfect time to begin germination. 😉 Even nowish for me on the Southern Cape Coast.
@@gardeningwithgabriel6698 I appreciate that. I am in the southern Drakensberg where we already getting frost so I have them in a tunnel. Hoping for a better result this time round.
If you still have some of those saplings il buy some from you
Hey Johann, I do indeed have a number of them left.
Can you take cutting frome these
Honestly, I haven't tried... but I can't see why not. I would use a river sand/peat/vermiculite equal parts. Kinda like proteas
Is there an update on these bad boys?
I haven't gotten round to bagging them up yet they're all alive and well and I will be repotting them soon. I am definitely a bit late on that too. Should have gotten them out in August already.
a robust plant highly adaptable to new environments.
Definitely, although best started in a protected environment.
The name of tree "Blue Ice" ?
Hi there, no the 'Blue Ice' tree is a pine from North America Cupressus arizonica. This is our National Tree The 'Yellowwood' tree.
@@gardeningwithgabriel6698 ok, i think it's the podocarpus elongatus monmal tree or what is called blue ice
@@budisusilo6805 That may be true although this is the problem with with common names, it can be very dangerous. One plant may be poisonous the other medicinal and if both have the same common name, then mistakes can be made. It isn't always the easiest to use botanical names but accuracy on a species is assured this way.