Adansonia grandidieri

In leafless, winter-time pose in Mt Coot-Tha botanic gardens, Brisbane, late July. This is a mere sapling. Grandidier's Baobab is the largest of Madagascar's six species and the species whose unearthly, massive smooth trunks and compressed flat crowns have become an iconic image of the island as a whole. Appropriately enough, it is endangered, both by encroachment of agriculture and by commercial exploitation.

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