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African Baobab
Adansonia digitata
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Fact: Adansonia digitata‘s fruit is sometimes known as a superfruit.
warm, hot
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Adansonia digitata (baobab, Afrikaans: kremetart, Hausa: kuka, Sotho: seboi, Tswana: mowana, Tsonga:Ximuwu, Venda: muvhuyu, Arabic: tabladi)[1][2] is the most widespread of the Adansonia species on the African continent, found in the hot, dry savannahs of sub-Saharan Africa. It also grows, having spread secondary to cultivation, in populated areas. English common names for the baobab include […] read more