Since childhood, Loveness Bhitoni has picked baobab fruits from the gigantic trees surrounding her homestead in Zimbabwe to add variety to the family’s staple corn and millet diet. She never saw ...

I was inspired to look more closely at this tree after reading a recent report on the frenzied baobab trade that has swept through Africa, especially in Zimbabwe, the center of Baobab activity ...

Native to the African continent, the baobab is known as the "tree of life" for its resilience and is found from South Africa ...

However, the African baobab that is native to Sub-Saharan Africa is the only species authorised on the European market. The tree is native to Senegal, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Ghana, Benin ...

Baobabs are also the longest-lived African trees; in 2011, a baobab that died in Zimbabwe at the age of 2,450 made it the oldest of all flowering plants to be documented on the African continent. I ...