The baobab tree is revered in Africa, having sustained locals for centuries, so its survival is important to people who live there. Medicinal compounds are extracted from its leaves, while the fruit — ...

Posts and reels abound touting this gnarly looking fruit and its chalky, yet pleasant tasting powder. Baobab is promoted to ...

Driving beyond South Africa's Limpopo province, into the village of Chivadini, people and grassland are scarce. But the oldest living organisms in Africa -- baobab trees -- are abundant. These ...

If you have sensitive or irritated skin, baobab oil can be a soothing remedy. The anti-inflammatory properties of the oil ...

(Reuters) - The baobab tree is a distinctive sight on the landscape. When its contorted branches are leafless during the dry season, they resemble jumbled roots emanating from a thick trunk, making it ...

Baobab trees — ancient, otherworldly behemoths with bulbous trunks that splinter into a constellation of spindly branches — are some of Africa's most iconic living things. Until late last year, the ...

A ship carrying gigantic live baobab trees has sailed from the Kenyan Coast to Georgia, ending a nine-month standoff between a Kilifi-based billionaire and State agencies that had suspended the export ...

CROOKS CORNER, South Africa (AP) — Africa’s ancient baobab, with its distinctive swollen trunk and known as the “tree of life,” is under a new and mysterious threat, with some of the largest and ...