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Adansonia digitata
'African Baobab'
[ Bombacaceae ] [ Africa ]
The African baobab is the most important in number and also the better known among the eight species.
Indigenous in the semi arid part of the sub-Saharian Africa.
Unlike the 8 other diploid species, it is tetraploid.
This means that it has 4n chromosomes in its cells, the diploid number of 2n being the normal number.
Adansonia digitata has a character which is unique in the genus: pendulous flowers.
The tree is usually massive, reaching 25m in height and up to 12 m in diameter, with irregular crown.
Bark grey, smoth. Some times irregurlarly tuberculate.
Flowers of Adansonia digitata are white.
The fruits are variable, globose to ovoid.
Adansonia digitata

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Tree . Flowering plant . Fruiting plant . Plant which can be grown as a Bonsai . Succulent Plant . Develops a caudex .
Habitat
zone 10b = Winter minimum temperature 2C to 4C (35F to 40F)
Coastal Tropical Forests
Rocky Hillsides
Savanna Grassland
Savanna Woodland
Dry tropical forests


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Resitant to salty sea air
Drought-Tolerant
Medicinal Plant

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Cultivation
Substrate
Temperature during winter

1 gravel + 1 soil + 1 humus

Indoor during winter temperature min. from 3 to 10C
Lighting
Watering during automn-winter

Sunny

Extremely rare
Watering during hot season
Fertilizer during growth

Regularly and abundantly, but avoid that the water traverse the pot

Regularly but with spacing
Pruning
Repotting
A light pruning is possible every end of summer
Repot from time to time

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