Category: Botanic of the Baobab

The Penang Baobab Tree Malaysia

The Baobab Tree of Penang is believed to be the oldest planted tree in Malaysia, and one of the most unusual-looking trees in Penang. There are plenty of heritage trees in Penang, but the Baobab is a grand dame in a class of its own. It...

Madagascar Fourth Largest Island

Madagascar is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, off the south eastern coast of Africa. The main island also called Madagascar which is the fourth largest island in the world and is home to five percent of the worlds plant and animal species....

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THE BIZARRE BAOBAB

If you travel in the remote deserts of Australia, Africa or Madagascar, you may from time to time spot a solitary tree that looks as if it is growing upside-down, with gnarled roots sitting atop a huge, smooth, trunk. It is well worth...

Boab Trees

David Batty, of Bush Mechanics fame, examines the mystery surrounding the origins of the iconic tree of the Kimberley - the Boab. GEORGE NEGUS: Well, to complete our outback journey tonight, we move away from the Centre to the isolated but...

Baobab description

All Baobabs are deciduous trees ranging in height from 5 to 20 meters. The Baobab tree is a strange looking tree that grows in low-lying areas in Africa and Australia. It can grow to enormous sizes and carbon dating indicates that they...

Baobab tree

The African baobab, Adansonia digitata – the classic wide-trunked tree of the African plains, with its unusual "upside down" silhouette when leafless in winter – is the most famous of this genus of eight species in the kapok family...

Adansonia digitata Baobab

Baobab is the common name of a genus (Adansonia) containing eight species of trees, native to Madagascar (having six species), mainland Africa and Australia (one species in each). The mainland African species also occurs on Madagascar, but it is...