Several baobabs stationed on the nearby camp Savute Elephant Camp by Orient Express in Botswna in Chobe National Park road.


Several baobabs stationed on the nearby camp Savute Elephant Camp by Orient Express in Botswna in Chobe National Park road. The African baobab tree is a massive trunk, bottle-shaped or irregular and full of knots. Their height can vary between 5 and 30 m and trunk diameter exceeds 11 m. The bark is smooth and fibrous wood with little water content . The leaves sprout in a rainy season in summer in the northern hemisphere and winter in the southern hemisphere. Adult tree leaves are compound having from 5 to 11 leaflets arising petiole same circle and whose edges are integers for all species except the rubrostipa species that has serrations . Young trees have simple leaves and go lobulando slowly . The flowers are hermaphrodite , actinomorphic, about 10 cm, with white petals . All species bear fruit at the end of the dry season or early wet . The fruit is a dry berry or a thick capsule -shaped elongated melon . Seeds are numerous , large kidney-shaped . Wrapping seed pulp is a cream color, which varies from earthy texture spongy according to the species and age of the fruit. Seeds live more than five years.


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