One of the 4x4 vehicles Orient Express makes a stop along the way at sunset to make a tea and watch the sunset next to a baobab
One of the 4x4 vehicles Orient Express makes a stop along the way at sunset to make a tea and watch the sunset next to a baobab . Near Camp Savute Elephant Camp by Orient Express in Botswna in Chobe National Park . Different species of baobabs : Adansonia digitata : the baobab par excellence. It grows in all semi-arid areas of mainland Africa , reaches 25 m in height and 10 meters in diameter. The cup is rounded and has one or more secondary trunks . The leaves have 5 to 7 leaflets. The fruit is globose or ovoid . In the Sahel there are four types of this species, the black crust, red bark, the bark gray and dark leafy (dark leaves) . The latter has the most appreciated leaves as a vegetable , gray is best for the fiber and the other for the fruits . Adansonia grandidieri . Proper of Madagascar , is the highest kind ( 25 m) and slender than the others ; acilindrado and smooth. It is also the tree that has more uses and has been exploited more . The bark of a reddish -gray , and the mature tree is 10 to 15 cm thick, is so fibrous that there is no tree that has not been mined to a height of two meters to tissues , as is readily regenerated . The fruit is globose , twice as long as wide. The fruit pulp is eaten fresh and seed oil is extracted for cooking. In some areas the goats fed with these fruits , pulp goats digest and expel the entire seed . Wood, sponge , is rich in water and has concentric rings that show the growing years.
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