Looking over Pretoriuskop sourveld to the granite dome of Shabeni hill, from the Madlabantu Trail, southwestern Kruger Park, Mpumalanga, South Africa. The foreground trees with brown seed pods are silver cluster-leafs (<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminalia_sericea" class="extiw" title="en:Terminalia sericea">Terminalia sericea</a></i>, Combretaceae). The crest of the granite dome is 3.4 km (2.1 miles) distant.<br>Acocks (1975) and Gertenbach described this landscape as Lowveld Sour Bushveld (of Pretoriuskop). Its altitude varies around 600 metres a.s.l. and the annual precipitation around 750 mm per annum. It rests on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archean" class="extiw" title="en:Archean">Archain</a> granite and gneiss and presents distinct uplands with red to yellow-brown soils, and bottomlands with sandy to sandy-loam soils. It spans the watershed which divides the Sabie River (via the Pabene and Mtshawu) to the north, and the Crocodile River (via the Nsikazi and Mbyamide) to the south.
<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Bgag" title="User:Bgag">Bernard Gagnon</a>
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