Gerhard Geldenhuys  


Quiver Tree by Gerhard Geldenhuys

October 2025 - Quiver Tree

October 2025 - Gerhard Geldenhuys

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October 2025 - Gerhard Geldenhuys

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About the Image(s)

This month, I took a photo of a roadside kiosk being the entrance to a Quiver tree forest preserve. A fee is charged by the farm to enter the preserved quiver tree forest to walk and photograph the endangered trees. I have included two more images of the tree forest so that it gives our group a better visual of the tree forest. Tech stuff. iPhone 16pro max 48mm f1.78 ISO 64 1/7874s RAW. Post-processing in Adobe cc. No cropping
Why is it called a quiver tree? Known as choje to the indigenous San people, the quiver tree gets its English common name from the San people's practice of hollowing out the tubular branches of Aloidendron dichotomum to form quivers for their arrows.


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Martin Newland   Martin Newland
Gerhard, thank you for the explanation regarding the naming of the Quiver tree. I have learnt something new today.
I like how the one looks through the gateway into another world. There is a band of commercialism in the foreground, then the photographers and then the Quiver tree forest in the background; which is the reason all this activity.
A great photo, well done!
  Posted: 10/09/2025 23:48:11



 

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