{"id":9617,"date":"2026-03-02T07:39:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T05:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bushveld-mosaic.org.za\/?p=9617"},"modified":"2026-03-02T08:25:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T06:25:28","slug":"trees-21-11-2025-23-11-2025-borakalalo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bushveld-mosaic.org.za\/?p=9617","title":{"rendered":"Trees 21.11.2025 – 23.11.2025 Borakalalo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A pictorial view of the trees weekend<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Arriving in Borakalalo in warm and pleasant conditions for the challenging part \u2013 Amphibian and Reptile test.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Going through the notes with weekend lecturer Steven Blenkinsop<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Visitor at the Auditorium which will have to wait a bit before we make it our topic. (Order Phasmida \u2013 not going further than that, yet)<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Getting samples for typical mixed bushveld trees, but how to spot the tree in the forest?<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ok got it.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Identifying the low hanging fruits (Tree with two coloured inflorescences? \u2013 Sickle Bush (Dichrostachys cinera) <\/em>)<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Let it all sink in \u2013 relaxing time after a hard but interesting day.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Now lets see whether anything got stuck from yesterdays lectures, out in the field for the practical tree identification<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lets\u2019s get some shade and appreciate the world of trees in a beautiful setting in a park which is always a pleasure to visit but needs support!!  And the end of another very interesting and thoughtful weekend.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

ED’s Note: Thanks very much to student Hermann Br\u00fcmmer for this very interesting weekend report. How green is Bora.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A pictorial view of the trees weekend ED’s Note: Thanks very much to student Hermann Br\u00fcmmer for this very interesting weekend report. How green is Bora.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-module-feedback"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bushveld-mosaic.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bushveld-mosaic.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bushveld-mosaic.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bushveld-mosaic.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bushveld-mosaic.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9617"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bushveld-mosaic.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9644,"href":"https:\/\/www.bushveld-mosaic.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9617\/revisions\/9644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bushveld-mosaic.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bushveld-mosaic.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bushveld-mosaic.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}