Inscriptions made on the bark of the tree by unknown hands, have proved to be more than a century old. Some specimens of the ...

Looking like a misfit, the boab tree, also known as bottle tree or upside-down tree due to its freaky swollen trunk, is a venerable living thing that can, if it had a voice, narrate the passing of ...

The famous Boab prison tree found 5km south-east of the remote north-western WA town of Derby. Image credit: shutterstock The boab tree, an icon of the Kimberley. In 1820, on first encountering a boab ...

The so-called prison tree is a large hollow boab just south of Derby in Western Australia. It is reputed to have been used in the 1890s as a holding cell for Aboriginal prisoners on their way to ...

Dietitians in WA's Kimberley are hoping the leaves of the boab tree will become a staple part of the Australian diet and provide a possible free treatment for health conditions like anaemia.

For all this, the dominant character here is the Kimberley itself. This old country that drifted in and welded on to the continent.

No one knows when and how the boab came across from Africa to Australia, ... Characterizing baobab, the nutritious African 'Tree of Life' Jan 8, 2015. Recommended for you.

The boab (or bottle) tree (Adansonia gregorii) may live over 1,000 years, based on the dating of the closely related baobab trees in South Africa. They have very thick, ...

Baby boabs are the seedling stage of the large boab tree. They can be used raw or cooked. Peel the tuber and wash the fresh edible leaves on top. This recipe can be served as a side dish with ...

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This myth has not gone unchallenged. In the 1960s, for example, the Australian Women’s Weekly reported that the boab outside Derby “was probably never used as a prison” tree.

Boab tree at a rock art site near Wyndham, WA. C Kull. The Gondwana hypothesis was effectively tossed out by botanist David Baum, when he did a genetic analysis of baobab species from Africa ...