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Sunland Baobab (also Platland Baobab, Mooketsi Baobab, Tree Bar, Big Baobab or Pub Tree) is a well-known enormous baobab (Adansonia digitata) in South Africa. The tree is located on Sunland Farm (Platland Farm), near Modjadjiskloof (previously known as Duiwelskloof), Limpopo Province .
The Panke baobab in Zimbabwe was some 2,450 years old when it died in 2011, making it the oldest angiosperm ever documented, and two other trees—Dorslandboom in Namibia and Glencoe in South Africa—were estimated to be approximately 2,000 years old. [17]
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.
A viral post about a pub inside a South African baobab tree leaves out information about attraction's closure and offers a disputed age for the tree.
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baobab — the common name for the genus as a whole, but often used in Australia to refer to the Australian species; Australian baobab [5] boabab was in common use from the late 1850s [6] (Perhaps the origin of boab) baob [7] [8] Gadawon [9] is one of the names used by the local Aboriginal Australian groups.
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