Adansonia Grandidieri. Grandidieri's Baobab.
The Adansonia Grandidieri is the most majestic, not to mention the largest and most famous of Madagascar's six species of Baobabs. A massive cylindrical trunk can be up to 3m in diameter is covered with a smooth reddish-grey bark and used for storing water. In habitat the large flat topped crowns come into leaf in the wet season and bear bluish-green sprirally arranged palmate leaves between October and May followed by dark brown flower buds and spectacular white flowers which open in the evening and have a watermelony scent. The large fruits are ripe between November and December containing kidney shaped seeds within an edible pulp high in vitamin C. These amazing trees are classed as an endangered species due to deforestation. Easy to grow it makes a very unique houseplant in the UK when yound which can also be trained as a Bonsai.
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