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BAOBAB

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 363 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BAOBAB  , Adansonia digitata(natural

order Bombaceae) ,anative of tropical Africa, one of the largest trees known, its stem reaching 30 ft. in diameter, though the height is not
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great . It has a large woody fruit, containing a mucilaginous pulp, with a pleasant cool taste, in which the seeds are buried . The bark yields a strong fibre which is made into ropes and
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woven into
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cloth . The wood is very
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light and soft, and the trunks of living trees are often excavated to form houses . The name of the genus was given by
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Linnaeus in honour of Michel Adanson, a celebrated French botanist and traveller .

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