Kruger Magazine

THE NYALA TREE

General description and identification

Another one of the ‘Big Seven’ trees of the Kruger National Park (KNP), the nyala tree () or nhlarhu in XiTsonga, mutshato in Tshivenda and njalaboom in Afrikaans, is an exceptionally large tree (up to 30m tall), with an enormous, very dense, rounded crown of

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