The baobab tree (genus Adansonia) – is native to Madagascar (6 species), Africa (2 species) and Australia (1 species), nine species in all.
Baobabs are pollinated by bats and have the fruit or byproduct that is both sweet and sour at the same time a treat for all the natives to where the species is found. This very same fruit can also be used for making juices even beer to fabric, a very versatile contribution in nature.
The baobab’s, flooding (water accumulation in and around the trunk or base of the tree), lightning strikes, elephants brushing up against or using the tree as a back scratcher, black fungus and drought which is native to each of the lands where the species thrives.
Baobabs due to their large trunks or bases store large accumulations of water, this not only helps the tree during drought season but is also a source of nourishment for animals such as elephants during the dry seasons.
As you can imagine because of this tree being so large, it is the home for many species of animal, insects, rodents, and birds.
If you can imagine more than 50 feet of the conference as recorded by the Guinness book of worlds record, that ends times past these majestic trees were used as shelters, homes, post offices and yes even prisons.
These trees are reported to live for up to 1300 years, if only these trees could talk what stories what they tell?
