The Swartwater Tree is one of the largest known baobabs (Adansonia digitata) in South Africa. This tree is somewhat smaller than the two largest giants – Sagole Tree and Sunland Baobab, but nevertheless this is giant and picturesque tree with a fantastic circumference of 24.55 m.

Tree was included in the list of South African Champion Trees comparatively recently – in 2012.

Some images of this tree can be seen in the Website of Tumuga Game Ranches.

References

1. Declared List of Champion Trees, Department of Agriculture, Forestry & Fisheries, November 2012. Accessed: the 23rd July 2014

Swartwater Tree on the map

Location, GPS coordinates:	22.8615 S 28.2250 E (most likely location)
Categories:	Trees
Values:	Biology
Rating:
Where is located?	Africa, South Africa, Limpopo Province, near Swartwater Farm
Species:	Baobab (Adansonia digitata L.)
Height:	28.4 m
Circumference:	24.55 m
Crown diameter:	29.11 m

Landmarks of South Africa

South Africa is extremely rich with unusual archaeological and natural monuments.

Geologically South Africa is interesting with its unique mineral deposits providing some of the best diamond, gold, platinum ores and other highly valuable mineral resources.

The biodiversity of South Africa is unsurpassed in many respects but also very endangered.

Trees

Category includes some of the most impressive and interesting separate trees of the the world. Total number of tree species in the world still is a wild guess – may be 10,000 and may be 100,000 but most likely somewhere in between. Every month there are reported new tree species from the whole world, including the Western Europe.

Recommended books

Tree of Life: The World of the African Baobab

Text and pictures document the life cycle of this amazing tree of the African savannah, and portrays the animals and people it helps to support

The Remarkable Baobab

Standing tall on the sunburned plains of Africa and Australia, baobabs may be the oldest life forms on the planet. Many of the specimens still standing today have been around for well over two thousand years. Tremendous in size and bizarre in appearance, they have provided food, medicine, and places of refuge and worship to countless peoples, even serving as prisons and tombs on occasion. Long before European explorers opened up the African continent, the news of these “gnarled upside-down giants” had astonished the world of science and stoked the imagination of naturalists everywhere.