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Baobab🌺
Adansonia digitata
バオバブ
The general name for trees in the genus Adansonia, mallow family. Distributed in Africa, Madagascar, and Australia. Known for its enormously thick water-storing trunk (over 10 m in diameter). Some trees live for thousands of years — hence 'tree of life'. Famous from Saint-Exupéry's 'The Little Prince'. Fruit, leaves, and bark are all used as food and medicine.
Identification Points
- ✓Bottle-shaped massively thick trunk, 20+ m tall
- ✓Palmately compound leaves, deciduous in the dry season
- ✓Large white night-blooming flowers pollinated by bats
Habitat
Savannas and dry lands (Africa)
Season
Deciduous in dry season; flowers in rainy season
Morphological TraitsAI-estimated, needs verification
Leaf arrangement
Alternate
Leaf type
Compound
Compound type
Palmate
Growth form
Tree
Evergreen/Deciduous
Deciduous
Flower color
White
Habitat
Grassland
Phylogenetic Positionアオイ科 →
Phylogenetic Position
Angiosperms > Eudicots > Core eudicots > Malvales > Malvaceae
Divergence Era
Late Cretaceous (ca. 80–90 million years ago)
Sources & References
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