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The Australian baobab, or gourd tree, grows in NW Australia. It has edible seeds, and the massive trunk is used as a source of water by animals and Aborigines.

Tree with rootlike branches, hence the nickname ‘upside-down tree’, and a disproportionately thick girth, up to 9 m/30 ft in diameter. The pulp of its fruit is edible and is known as monkey bread. (Genus Adansonia, family Bombacaceae.)

Baobabs may live for up to 1,000 years and are found in Africa and Australia.
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