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Adansonia digitata
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Family:
BOMBACACEAE
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Citation: Adansonia digitata L., Sp. Pl. 1190. 1753; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 348. 1874; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 102(73). 1915.
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Malayalam Name(s):
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Babob tree, African Baobab tree
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Description:
Large trees ; bark is soft, smooth, fibrous, reddish-brown, greyish-brown. Leaves alternate, digitately 3- to 9-foliate; leaflets oblong to ovate, 5-15 x 3-7 cm, lower leaflets being the smallest and terminal leaflet the largest; leaflets dark green, softly hairs; lateral veins looping; apex and base tapering, margin entire; petiole up to 12 cm long; petiolule sessile or subsessile. Flowers a waxy white, up to 20 cm in diameter, axillary, solitary, pendulous, bisexual. Calyx deeply lobed, with silky hairs inside; petals crinkly, spreading . Stamens many on a large central column . Ovary superior, 5-10 loculed; ovules many. Fruit ovoid, 12 cm or more in length, with a hard, woody shell, covered with yellowish-grey velvety hairs, indehiscent; seeds smooth, embedded in a whitish powdery pulp.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
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District(s):
Kannur
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Grown as ornamental tree
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Distribution:
Native of Africa
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
White
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
Yes
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Garden:
Yes
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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