Adansonia digitata L. Uses Africa (west): young, tender roots are edible. Pulp of fruits used for food and food seasoning. Acid pulp of fruit used by some pastoral tribes to curdle milk in the ...

The baobab tree has been around longer than most – 200 million years – and a single specimen can live up to 1000 years. It ...

Baobab oil or baobab seed oil is used as a food and as a beauty product for the skin and hair. We’ll look at several skin care benefits.

Seeds from 19 species of African trees have been added to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway. The trees were selected by the World Agroforestry Center for their value to communities across ...

The island is home to six of the world's nine Adansonia species, and Adansonia grandidieri is the biggest and most famous. Its smooth, cylindrical trunks can grow 10 feet wide and 100 feet high.

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The baobab tree evolved on the island of Madagascar before eventually spreading to Africa and Australia, new research suggests.

Adansonia digitata Anastashia Chetty, who studied the reproductive biology of the African baobab for her Master’s degree at the University of the Witwatersrand, also contributed to this article.

In Madagascar, communities and scientists are growing tens of thousands of baobab seedlings to restore the 1,000-year-old forests.