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| Image number: | 1961 |
| Feature : | baobab |
| Grouping : | forests and trees |
| Discipline : | botany |
| Year : | 1995 |
| Locality : | Victoria Falls |
| Country : | Zimbabwe |
| Region - tribe : | Zambezi valley |
| Physiographic region : | Kalahari sand plateau |
| Notice : | The Baobab (Adansonia digitata)occurs in the African (and Indian) savannas.The baobab is leafless for three quarters of the year. It can stock enormous quantities of water in its trunks, which swell with saturation. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 1995 Image 1961. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |