Adansonia Digitata. African Baobab.
The Adansonia Digitata is one of the most widespread of Madagascar's six species of Baobabs. Long lived to well over a thousand years these amazing trees have a massive cylindrical trunk, used for storing water which can be up to 3m in diameter and is covered with a smooth reddish-grey to purple-grey bark which protects it from bush fires. In habitat the large flat topped iregular crowns come into leaf in the wet season and bear bluish-green spirally arranged palmate leaves between October and May. Spectacular pendulous white sweet scented flowers have many stamens and open in the evening, being pollinated mainly by fruit bats before falling off within 24 hours. The large fruits up to 20cm long are ripe between November and December and contain an edible pulp high in vitamin C. Easy to grow it makes a very unique houseplant when young which can be trained as a Bonsai.
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