Adansonia samibarensis SEEDS

Description

Adansonia samibarensis seeds grow into a baobab of East African provenance, representing the wild baobab material from the coastal and lowland dry forests of the East African region. This material produces the characteristic massive, bottle-shaped trunk and spreading deciduous crown of the African baobab group, with large, pendulous white flowers opening at night and followed by the nutritious, woody-pericarped fruit typical of the genus. East African baobab populations are ecologically and culturally important to the communities of Tanzania and Kenya.

This East African baobab is a slow-growing but extraordinarily long-lived tree that becomes an architectural landmark as it matures, developing a trunk of enormous girth over decades and centuries. It thrives in seasonally dry tropical conditions with a pronounced dry season, very free-draining soil and full sun. An outstanding long-term specimen for warm-climate gardens and collections.

• Massive, bottle-shaped water-storing trunk develops spectacular girth with age
• Large, pendulous white flowers opening at night; bat and moth pollinated
• Digitately compound leaves; seasonally deciduous in the dry season
• East African provenance dry forests and savannah of Tanzania and Kenya
• Slow-growing, extraordinarily long-lived; full sun and sharp drainage essential

Baobab seeds of East African provenance are rarely offered and give collectors the opportunity to grow documented wild material of one of the most emblematic trees of the African continent a landmark specimen plant for warm-climate gardens and botanical collections.

IMPORTANT: Pictures show the adult plant, which is not for sale. The offer is only for seeds.