African Baobab
गोरखचिंचபொந்தன்புளிబ్రహ్మ మల్లిక
Adansonia digitata L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 18 m
- wide
- 12 m
Malvaceae
Formerly Adansonia bahobab, Adansonia baobab, Adansonia integrifolia, Adansonia kilima, and 6 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Trop. & S. Africa, S. Arabian Pen.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Desert Tropicals and Plant Lust, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 12 m to 24 mRead from Plant Lust, one source
- Spread
- 6.1 m to 18 mRead from Plant Lust, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Desert Tropicals and Plant Lust, not yet checked: its sources are splitTied: no reading has a majority of the 2 sources, so all are kept for a person to settle. Sources differ: Desert Tropicals medium; Plant Lust low
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from Desert Tropicals, Plant Lust and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by all 3 sources
- Coldest it survives
- 1.7 °C (USDA zone 10b)Read from Desert Tropicals and Plant Lust, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Desert Tropicals -1 °C; Plant Lust 4.4 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (5)
- Hindi
- गोरखचिंच
- Tamil
- பொந்தன்புளி
- Telugu
- బ్రహ్మ మల్లిక
- Marathi
- गोरखचिंच
- Malayalam
- അഡൻസോണിയ ഡിജിറ്റാറ്റ
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Desert Tropicals, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Plant Lust, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 2.0
- 3D model: Adansonia digitata (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.