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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).
The French explorer and botanist Michel Adanson (1727–1806) observed a baobab tree in 1749 on the island of Sor in Senegal, and wrote the first detailed botanical description of the full tree, accompanied with illustrations. Recognizing the connection to the fruit described by Alpini he called the genus Baobab.
The Big Tree grows roughly 2 km from the Zambezi River, Victoria Falls, and the island where Livingstone made landfall in a mokoro dugout canoe and wrote his records. This tree is possibly the oldest and biggest baobab in the world. [6] Some similar trees were lost by the flooding further downstream that occurred when Kariba Dam was finished in ...
It appears that baobab seed pods floated from Madagascar to mainland Africa, located about 250 miles (400 km) to the west, and to Australia, situated more than 4,000 miles (nearly 7,000 km) to the ...
In French it is called Baobab malgache. The local name is renala or reniala (from Malagasy : reny ala , meaning "mother of the forest"). [ 3 ] [ 4 ] This tree is endemic to the island of Madagascar, where it is an endangered species threatened by the encroachment of agricultural land.
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Along a 260 m (850 ft) stretch of the road is a grove of 20–25 Adansonia grandidieri baobabs. An additional 25 or so trees of this species are found growing over nearby rice paddies and meadows within 9.9 acres (4 ha) of land. [2]
Glencoe Baobab is the stoutest and second largest baobab (Adansonia digitata L.) after the Sagole Baobab [1] in South Africa. It is possibly the stoutest tree in the world. The Champion Tree is located in Glencoe Farm, near Hoedspruit, Limpopo and had a trunk diameter of 15.9 m (52 ft). The tree divides into several trunks close to the ground.