Close-up view of the bright green needles of a pine tree, grown commercially in the Mpumalanga Escarpment of South Africa

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Close-up view of the bright green needles of a pine tree, grown commercially in the Mpumalanga Escarpment of South Africa. Commercial Pine Plantations, mostly for the paper industry, were planted along the eastern Escarpment of South Africa, to compensate for the gold fields which ran dry in the 19th Century.

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Size: 4000px × 3000px
Location: Kaapsche Hoop, South Africa
Photo credit: © Marieke Peche / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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