digitata

* We cannot conclude this account of the principal vegetable productions of Lower Guinea, without mentioning that colossus of the earth, the enormous baobab, or Adansonia digitata, which is here called aliconda bondo and mapou.

Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge Frances Harriet 1838

The interaction between nature and humans is evidenced by the role played by local trees such as Baobab Adansonia digitata, Karité Butyrospermum parkii, Tamarindus indica and herbaceous plants in traditional land use and agriculture.

'W' National Park, Niger 2009

Originally, this community comprised baobab Adansonia digitata and several species of Ficus, Sterculia, Khaya, and Albizzia.

Lake Malawi National Park, Malawi 2009

Imbondeiro (Adansonia digitata), Angola-Namibia border.

Namibian savanna woodlands 2008

Acacia welwitschii, and baobab (Adansonia digitata) being the dominant woody species.

Angolan scarp savanna and woodlands 2008

Mopane often forms pure stands to the exclusion of other species, but is generally associated with several other prominent trees and shrubs, such as Kirkia acuminata, Dalbergia melanoxylon, Adansonia digitata, Combretum apiculatum, C. imberbe, Acacia nigrescens, Cissus cornifolia, and Commiphora spp.

Zambezian and Mopane woodlands 2008

To the north and northwest of Ntwetwe Pan individual baobab (Adansonia digitata), Acacia kirkii, and Acacia nigrescens trees are found scattered throughout the grassland.

Zambezian halophytics 2008

“Bonderro” is a corruption of the Lusitanianized imbundeiro, the calabash, or adansonia (digitata?): the other baobab is called nkondo, probably the Aliconda and Elicandy of Battel and old travellers, who describe the water-tanks hollowed in its huge trunk, and the cloth made from the bark fibre.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

Fruits such as baobab (Adansonia digitata) and morula (Sclerocarya birrea) are exceptionally rich in the vitamin.

Chapter 4 1999

Delonix alata, Lannea triphylla, Adansonia digitata.

Chapter 7 1999