The smallest of the baobab species grows to 16 feet, while the largest of the trees can grow to be about 82 feet tall, with a circumference that measures the same, or even more. For comparison, a ...

A total of 120,000 seeds from 13 African tree species, including the baobab, Adansonia digitata and white acacia, ... Malawi deposited 813 seed varieties, including sorghum, ...

The baobab tree is a distinctive sight on the landscape. When its contorted branches are leafless during the dry season, they resemble jumbled roots emanating from a thick trunk, making it appear ...

Baobabs are also the longest-lived African trees; in 2011, a baobab that died in Zimbabwe at the age of 2,450 made it the oldest of all flowering plants to be documented on the African continent.

The baobab tree has been around longer than most – 200 million years – and a single specimen can live up to 1000 years. It was around at the dawn of the dinosaurs and has captivated humans for ...