Wonderboom Nature Reserve Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
The Wonderboom Nature Reserve is a 100-hectare reserve centered on a wild willowleaf fig tree Ficus salicifolia that is more than a thousand years old, found to the north of the Magaliesberg in the city of Tshwane north of central Pretoria, South Africa. It is situated at the foot of the Magaliesberg and is currently protected from human traffic around its stem and roots. As it has grown, its outlying branches have rooted themselves round the parent tree. This has repeated until there are now three circles of daughter trees encircling the mother fig, with 13 distinct trunks."Wonderboom" is the Afrikaans name that translates as Wonder Tree.
Other features of the Wonderboom Nature preserve include a stone age site that has given up the largest single accumulation of Neolithic tools ever found in South Africa and an Iron Age site, as well as a breeding pair of Black Eagles.