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\"Glencoe<\/a>

Glencoe Baobab<\/p><\/div>\n

A very special Baobab grows surrounded by agricultural land at Hoedspruit in the Limpopo province. As befits a giant of its size, legends have sprouted around it. The location for such a legend is perfect: it revolves around a hidden treasure. At the end of the Boer War, two wagons of Kruger Gold were sent north to Olifants River.<\/p>\n

The Trick with the Termites<\/h2>\n

Said gold was supposedly hidden near Hoedspruit \u2013 in a huge hole that had been carved into a baobab. Someone came up with a brilliant idea to conceal the large hole with the treasure: a termite queen was buried with the gold and expected to provide a new colony. The termites in turn should do what termites usually do: build a termite mound \u2013 above the hole in the Baobab.<\/p>\n

Glencoe Baobab Africa<\/h2>\n

The story was credited to the Glencoe Baobab. The tree received its name because it grows on the ground of the Glencoe Farm. With a diameter of 15.9 meters and a circumference of 47 meters, it was considered to be one of the largest and most massive baobabs in South Africa for a long time.<\/p>\n

The tree was 17 feet tall and thus was not one of the highest of its kind. Nevertheless its treetop expanded to 37.05 meters. At its base, the giant divided into several trunks close to the earth. The main trunk sank towards the ground long time ago. From a distance its shape looked like a small grove.<\/p>\n\n\t\t