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  2. Adansonia - Wikipedia

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    Baobab trees have two types of shoots—long, green vegetative ones, and stout, woody reproductive ones. Branches can be massive and spread out horizontally from the trunk or are ascending. Adansonia gregorii is generally the smallest of the baobabs, rarely getting to over 10 m (33 ft) tall and often with multiple trunks. [ 8 ]

  3. Adansonia perrieri - Wikipedia

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    Adansonia perrieri, or Perrier's baobab, is a critically endangered species of deciduous tree, in the genus Adansonia. This species is endemic to northern Madagascar . [ 1 ] It has been documented in only 10 locations, including the Ankarana, Ampasindava, Loky Manambato and Montagne d'Ambre protected areas.

  4. Adansonia digitata - Wikipedia

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    Adansonia digitata, the African baobab, is the most widespread tree species of the genus Adansonia, the baobabs, and is native to the African continent and the southern Arabian Peninsula (Yemen, Oman).

  5. Adansonia gregorii - Wikipedia

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    Gregory's Tree, in the Gregory's Tree Historical Reserve at Timber Creek, NT, is an Aboriginal sacred site and a registered Australian heritage site. The boab tree marks the site of a camp of the explorer Augustus Charles Gregory , and is inscribed with the dates of his party's arrival and departure, from October 1855 to July 1856.

  6. Adansonia za - Wikipedia

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    Adansonia za is a species of baobab in the genus Adansonia of the family Malvaceae (previously included in the Bombacaceae). It was originally named in French as anadzahé . [ 3 ] Common names in Malagasy include bojy , boringy , bozy , bozybe , ringy , and za , [ 4 ] the last of which gives the plant its specific epithet . [ 5 ]

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    The baobab tree is a distinctive sight on the landscape. Two baobab lineages went extinct in Madagascar, but not before establishing themselves elsewhere, one in Africa and one in Australia, the ...

  8. Pachycaul - Wikipedia

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    The largest caudiciforme-type pachycaul is the African baobab (Adansonia digitata); one specimen of which, called the Glencoe baobab (from Hoedspruit, Limpopo, South Africa) has a basal diameter (not girth) of 52 ft 2 in (15.90 meters). [12] However, this particular tree has suffered a severe trauma and is dying. Examples occur in the genera [13]

  9. Gija Jumulu - Wikipedia

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    Gija Jumulu is a boab tree (Adansonia gregorii) which was transported 3,200 kilometres (2,000 mi) from Telegraph Creek, near Warmun in the Kimberley region of Western Australia to Kings Park in Perth. [1] This was the longest land journey of a similar sized tree in history. [2]