Plant life

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The indigenous vegetation include treeferns, Highveld cussonia, Transvaal yellow wood,  shrubs,  among them fruit bearing  shrubs, a variety of bulbs of which the arum lily is best known, and other species of the lily family, flowers, water plants like bullrushes, various grass species.  Aloe are also found.  Treeferns, from which Treeferns Trout Lodge took its name, is described in detail under “Treeferns”,  in the section Fauna and Flora.

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Among alien species the black wattle is present mainly along the stream, and some pines, blue gum, poplar, willows and oaks were planted years ago.

One of only a few proteas which remained after years of veld fires

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