A team of international academics successfully sequenced the genomes of each of the eight baobab species, examining their relationship with one another and concluded that they originated in ...

"We were delighted to be involved in this project uncovering patterns of baobab speciation in Madagascar followed by the astonishing long-distance dispersal of two species, one to Africa and ...

As regular visitors to Gangewadiya, across the southern boundary of Wilpattu National Park where the Kala Oya flows into the Dutch Bay, we have often seen its magnificent mangroves - the building ...

Baobab trees live to be very old and grow to be very tall. The Sunland “Big baobab” in Limpopo Province in South Africa reached 22 metres high and 47 metres in circumference before it toppled ...

Local communities utilise baobab leaves, pulp, and seeds as a source of food While Madagascar is also home to several other species of baobab, they are considered novel foods and cannot be sold in ...

The 19 species represented included 13 native to Africa and six others that have found a place in the economies and ecologies of the continent. Among the trees selected were the baobab (Adansonia ...