Op die sypaadjie voor die huis in Rowanstraat 1, Mostertsdrift, waar ons sedert 1976 vir 46 jaar gewoon het, staan twee mooi inheemse bome: \u2019n huilboom en \u2019n koraalboom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die huilboom (Peltophorum africanum<\/span>) was reeds daar toe ons ingetrek het. Hierdie boom, wat met sy veervormige blare baie soos \u2019n doringboom lyk en in Engels as Weeping wattle <\/i>bekend staan, het egter geen dorings nie. Ook sy pragtige drag van helder geel, trosvormige blomme wat in Januarie te sien is, lyk anders as di\u00e9 van \u2019n doringboom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Die huilboom kom uit die noordelike Bosveld van Suid-Afrika en kom ook verder noord in Afrika voor. Die boom in Rowanstraat is waarskynlik geplant deur prof. JFW Grosskopf, wat in 1920 as hoogleraar in staatshuishoudkunde (ekonomie) aan die Universiteit Stellenbosch aangestel is en die huis daar (met die stadsklerk, ene W. Blerch as argitek) gebou net. 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