The gigantic Baobab is an iconic species belonging to the African Continent. This tree has been a part of African cultures, traditions, remedies and folktales for centuries. The origin of this ...

“When around 70 percent of your 1,500- to 2,000-year-old trees died within 12 years, it certainly is not normal,” Erika Wise, a geographer at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, who was not ...

Tracing history through the baobab and tamarind reveals hidden paths of human migration and forgotten suffering.

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 ...