Description
Leadwood, as the name suggests is an extremely dense and heavy wood. It is one of the few woods which sinks being 60% heavier than water. It is extremely slow growing with the trunk thickening by only 0.3mm – 2mm per year. Leadwood trees can live for over a thousand years and it is estimated that they take a couple hundred years to decay as termites and other creatures battle to penetrate this hard wood. This Leadwood has been dead for the 31 years I have known it with hardly a change in its branches. It stands over the landscape as a silent witness and has seen this land as wild expanses, turned into cattle farms and reclaimed and restored back into wilderness areas as part of the Greater Kruger National Park.
