African Baobab Tree

mdvaden

Ever heard of this tree before?

New one to me... I'm not sure what words I'd use to describe the trunk of this tree.

An image from Wikipedia Commons

Image:BaobabElephantBandia.JPG - Wikimedia Commons

And a brief page with several interesting photo thumbnails...

Adansonia digitata - Wikimedia Commons

I'm curious if anyone has acquired one of these in an area like California or Arizona.

Ekka...

A couple of those images, seem to be covered by a "limited" license allowing sharing. Maybe you can decipher, and post one image in a reply with the appropriate paragraph and credit.

kimtree

Up in the kimberley area of western australia we have the Boab, Adansonia Gregorii.Recently a bush 1000 ha block was cleared and about 200 boabs were transplanted into town.Some with dbh of 1800mm mostly smaller,unfortunaly most we're damaged in transport due to being laid on their sides on semi trailers

Sean Freeman

A truely wonderful tree, saw many between Zimbabwe and Zambia in the mid 80's, the Oz boab Adansonia Gregorii is a great and versitile plant, the seeds are edible after some work, but more importantly the young seedlings harvested are fantastic as a clone for asparagus or spinach, I think thewre was a Landline report on a company or individual trying to kick off a business providing seeds. The beauty of the seedlings is of course they need very little inputs water etc to reach harvesting age...somewhat important given our current and predicted climate problems eh?

Eric Frei

Here's some facts for you

Boab trees and Bottle trees - confusion resolved

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kimtree

Thats up here in Kununurra,they grow them to the small stage[like parsnip] you eat the root supposed to be crunchy and good in stir fry cooking also boab chocolate,haven't tried either myself
did try normal boab nut, once is enough

Mr Diamond

Sirs,

Looking to purchase 10 - 15 trees between 6-9m. Kindly advise of sellers, town councils that may be interested to sell. We will remove and transport.

Sincerely
D.

Mr Diamond

Dear Sir,

kindly advise if these types of trees are available for purchase for overseas projects, do you know of any likely sellers? I would like to purchase 10-15 at 6-9m. I am contactable on this site or at diamonds@singnet.com.sg.

sincerely,
D.