Baobab Trees
Baobab Trees
By Susan and Dan Mahr
University of Wisconsin Master Gardener Program
The African baobab, Adansonia digitata – the classic wide-trunked tree of the African plains, with its unusual "upside down" silhouette when leafless in winter – is the most famous of this genus of eight species in the kapok family (Bombacaceae – which some scientists now consider to be part of the Malvaceae) named after the French surgeon Michel Adanson (1727-1806). It is the only species native to Africa
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