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Keurboom

R225.00

Gift a Keurboom Tree

Gifting a tree is simple and meaningful:

Select your gift type, add the name of the person you’d like to dedicate the tree to, and include a personal message. You can choose to have the digital certificate emailed straight to the recipient or sent to yourself to print or forward personally. (A copy of the certificate is always sent to you for your own records) Once ordered, our team prepares your certificate and your tree is lovingly planted in our indigenous forest corridors the Garden Route to help restore local forests for generations to come.

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Description

Keurboom

Virgilia divaricata Adamson & Virgilia oroboides (P.J.Bergius) Salter

Family: Fabaceae

Common names: blossom tree, amaqua tree (Eng.); keurboom, amakwasboom (Afr.)

Wildlife

  • The flowers of both species are rich in nectar and attract many insects and birds, such as sunbirds, carpenter bees, honey bees and ants.
  • Vervet monkeys chew of the leaves and eat the seeds.
  • Many birds such as doves and white-eyes nest in them.
  • In the forest, the large handsome ghost moth, Leto venus, lays its eggs at the foot of a keurboom so that the hatching caterpillars can bore into the wood.
  • The blue butterfly (Lampides boeticus) has been seen to breed primarily on lucerne and on keurboom trees.

Medicinal

  • No recorded medicinal properties of this tree to-date.

Practical Uses

  • In earlier times the wood was in high demand for yokes.
  • It was also used for spars, wagon-bed planks and rafters.
  • The wood is popular in furniture-making.
  • The transparent gum that exudes from the bark was once used as a substitute for starch.

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Please Note: While we aim to dispatch your certificates as quickly as possible, please keep in mind that our team operates weekdays between 8:00 am and 5:00 pm. Any orders placed outside of these hours will be processed first thing the next business day.

Additional information

About Gifting a Tree

*Note this a virtual product in the store, we won`t be sending you a physical tree.

How it works:
1) Select gift type
2) Complete form with details
3) Select total amount of trees
4) Add to cart

After checkout and payment, you, the Sponsor, will receive confirmation of transaction from Payfast. PTP will email the gift certificate to the selected recipient – which includes GPS coordinates and species type once it has been planted.

While we aim to dispatch your certificates as quickly as possible, please keep in mind that our team operates weekdays between 8:00 am and 5:00 pm. Any orders placed outside of these hours will be processed first thing the next business day.

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