Laerskool Wonderboom

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LAERSKOOL WONDERBOOM

Country: South Africa
Campus/location : Wonderboom, Pretoria, Gauteng

Coat of arms (crest) of Laerskool Wonderboom
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Origin/meaning

The arms are not officially granted.

The arms show the Wonderboom ('miracle tree') after which the are is named. The Wonderboom is a unique 1000 year old fig tree found North of the Magaliesberg Mountains in Pretoria. The tree, now a national monument, is unusually large, standing some 25 metres high and having a 5,5 metre diameter main trunk. It’s growth pattern is also unusual: as its branches grew longer, they drooped towards the ground and eventually took root and formed a circle of new trunks or daughter trees around the original tree. There are now a total of 13 trunks and the colossal tree covers an area with a diameter of 55 metres!

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