This tree is a native plant of Madagascar, Africa and Australia. These trees can adapt to extreme temperatures that reached 40 ° C. A typical common name is
baobab. Other common names include boab, boaboa, bottle tree, upside-down tree, and monkey bread tree. The generic name honours Michel Adanson, the French naturalist and explorer who described
A. digitata.
, This tree was indeed to save up to 300 liters of water! so they can grow up to 500 years.
Adansonia is a genus of eight species of tree,
Adansonias reach heights of 5 to 30 metres (16 to 98 ft) and have trunk diameters of 7 to 11 metres (23 to 36 ft). Glencoe Baobab - an African Baobab specimen in Limpopo Province, South Africa, often considered the largest example alive, up to recent times had a circumference of 47 metres (154 ft).
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| Adansonia digitata |
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| Adansonia grandidieri |
Classification of Adansonia (Baobab)
| Scientific classification |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Rosids |
| Order: | Malvales |
| Family: | Malvaceae |
| Subfamily: | Bombacoideae |
| Genus: | Adansonia |
Adansonia digitata (African Baobab)
