The gardens also has a large collection of native and introduced tropical plants including cycads, palms, Adansonia, gingers and heliconias.
Adansonia, a tree that is known in African folklore as "God's Thumb"
The regional office, the only brick-and-mortar building at Katima Mulilo at this time when the area consisted exclusively of pristine forests, was built under a giant Baobab situated near today's SWAPO Party regional offices.
A large baobab tree, purportedly over 800 years old, is said to have been a favourite of Dr. David Livingstone as a place where he could give sermons and speak with other missionaries.
Within the former South African Army base is the famous Omukwa Ombalantu baobab tree, a Baobab whose huge hollow trunk has been used in the past as a post office, a chapel and a coffee shop, and is now a craft shop.
Botswana's most popular landmarks range from a group of large baobab trees to giant-size footprints fossilized in the rock.
In the short documentary film "A Group of Women" ǃKung women rest, talk and nurse their babies while lying in the shade of a baobab tree.
Adansonia | Adansonia digitata | The emblem of the ''Scouts du Tchad'' incorporates a Adansonia | Baobab—''Adansonia digitata'' | Adansonia gregorii |
He has put efforts to get arboreal heritage tag to 10 old trees of Karnataka, which include Big Banyan tree, Bangalore (400 years old), Adansonia digitata - Malvaceae, Bijapur Taluk (600 years old), "Pilali" tree Ficus micro corpus, Banavasi, Uttara Kannada etc.