The Collector, having two Baobab trees in his official residence at Trespuram, successfully experimented raising 15 saplings both from stem cutting and vegetative propagation. With Hindu ...

A young baobab planted by Dry Forest, whose shoots have been nibbled by passing zebus, Madagascar’s ubiquitous cattle breed. Image by Nirina Rakotonanahary for Mongabay. Young saplings in Dry ...

A boy holds a baobab seedling at the baobab garden. Under the right conditions, the seedling could grow for hundreds of years. Natural areas like these have the potential to not only protect trees ...

As a result, it is now very rare to find a 20-year-old baobab seedling in the wild in Madagascar. It takes about 50 years for a baobab seedling to grow into a fruit-bearing tree. In 2019 ...

“In general, the baobab is a very climate-resilient plant ... Baobabs do face other threats, she added. Saplings struggle to survive in areas with high levels of livestock grazing.

Since childhood, Loveness Bhitoni has collected fruit from the gigantic baobab trees surrounding her homestead in Zimbabwe to add variety to the family's staple corn and millet diet. The 50-year ...

Yet on the African continent, this moniker is reserved for the baobab tree. Upon first glance, you may wonder why. It is sometimes referred to as “the upside down tree” since, from a distance ...

“A pub is inside a 2,000-year-old Baobab tree in South Africa,” claims a March 20 post. The images show the Sunland Baobab tree. The large tree was a popular tourist attraction in the South ...