The baobab known as Adansonia digitata L. is an icon of the African savannah. With wide, cylindrical trunks and gnarled branches, the trees appear to have been yanked out of the ground, flipped ...

In Africa, especially in the Savannah region, where the weather is dry and severely hit by climate change conditions, making it difficult for many trees to survive or thrive, the Baobab Tree ...

A unique African tree could dramatically improve the yield of crops planted under its canopy by providing natural, renewable fertilizer, says a new study. The tree has the potential to aid farmers ...

Tree-planting projects in Africa may damage grasslands and savannahs by introducing too much shade. By preventing smaller plants from photosynthesising, this would have knock-on effects for the ...

The imposing tree dots the dry African savannah from Senegal to Madagascar and can live for over a millennium. It can store thousands of liters of water and grow trunks so thick that one South African ...

Jacob Goheen, a UW assistant professor of zoology and physiology, was co-writer of a Science paper that focused on use of a global positioning system to track impala antelope and its predators to ...

Locations Though it could be found in few countries outside the African Continent, the Baobab Tree which can grow to a height of about 5 to 30 metres and trunk diameter of about 7 to 11 metres ...