Baobab
Adansonia digitata · Malvaceae · 바오밥나무
How to spot it
Marked by a very thick trunk, palmately compound leaves clustered at the branch tips, and large white flowers hanging down.
Look
- Leaves
- Palmately compound leaves, usually with 5 to 7 leaflets joined at one point.
- Flowers
- Large white flowers hang down on long stalks, with five petals and many stamens.
- Fruit
- Small dark brown seeds sit in powdery pulp inside the fruit.
- Bark
- The bark of the thick trunk is smooth.
Where it grows
- In Korea
- Planted (Hanbat Arboretum)
- Native to
- Tropical and southern Africa; southern Arabian Peninsula.
- Ecology
- Bats feed on it, and pollination by animals is recorded.
Sources
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew / Plants of the World Online
- 국립수목원 국가표준재배식물목록(개정)
- NParks Flora & Fauna Web
- World Agroforestry / Agroforestree Database 4.0 (Orwa et al., 2009)
- South African National Biodiversity Institute / PlantZAfrica
- 대전광역시 한밭수목원, 제4차 수목원진흥실시계획(2019–2023)
- SANBI PlantZAfrica 'Adansonia digitata'
- Krugerpark.co.za 'Baobab Tree - Adansonia digitata'
- University of Pretoria Repository — Patrut et al., 'The demise of the largest and oldest African baobabs', Nature Plants 4 (2018)
- Phys.org(AFP) ''Shocking' die-off of Africa's oldest baobabs: study' (2018-06-11)