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The arms were officially granted on October 29, 1965. | The arms were officially granted on October 29, 1965. | ||
The arms show a canting Wonderboom ('miracle tree') and in chief a wagon used in the Grote Trek of the 19th century when the area was settled. | The arms show a canting Wonderboom ('miracle tree') and in chief a wagon used in the Grote Trek of the 19th century when the area was settled. | ||
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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