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Meet the baobab, the prehistoric-looking tree whose largest living record hides a trail of fallen giants

A baobab can hold so much water in its swollen trunk that its shape visibly changes with the rainy season. In Africa’s dry savannah, where the climate can be extremely arid, that ability helps explain ...
Phys.org

Zanzibar's baobab trees used to be a valued part of society—drone images help prove it

Baobab trees may be a proxy for measuring long-term use of land by humans. They live long, have economic benefits, and are used as shrines and markers on landscapes. Archaeologists have long suspected ...
The New York Times

As a Sacred Tree Dies, Their Village Loses a Piece of Itself

In a forest in Madagascar, the demise of a centuries-old baobab points to the fraying of a fragile ecosystem. Cyrille CornuCredit... Supported by By Jonathan Wolfe The first sign that the tree was in ...
AOL

Witness trees: A living archive of Black memory

On the island of St. Croix, the largest of the U.S. Virgin Islands, a nearly 300-year-old baobab tree stands firmly in the center of a grass field. Its 50-foot-wide, swollen trunk and winnowy branches ...