Sunday 1 September 2013

Natural art worth seeing from SPK12

While the AIPE team were busy on the Spekboom River, I spotted something worth seeing. Rob cleaned up the area and cut back a lot of reeds and exposed this magnificent specimen of a Red-leaved Rock Fig (Ficus ingens) that seems to occur on all north facing cliffs on the estate. I struggled to identify it simply because the specific name, "ingens", means "enormous" and none of them are here. They do get rather big in the Lowveld. Take a walk in the morning (good sun angle) to the SPK12 sign at the weir and look to the cliff wall opposite you. It is a work of art. It is not a Tree Mural, it's a Mural Tree. Imagine having one of these on your lounge wall! Sublime, what?

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