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Baobab Flower

Adansonia za

Photo by Dan Doucette
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Field Notes

Description:

large orange bloom, 6", fragrant

Habitat:

spiny forest

Notes:

These flowers are very high in the tree and I'm really zoomed in for this photo. I spotted these in the spiny forest of Ifaty. The flowers are visited by moths and bats.

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Adansonia

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Comments (10)
Dan Doucette
Thanks for the comments Ashley, Dag, sarah and Kemberly, sorry it took me so long to get to them.
AshleyBradford
Wow, beautiful! I'd never seen a picture of the flower before.
JosephBullock
Yes, still here. Might have one or two more dental mission trips to parts of the Island.
Dan Doucette
Something for you to search out, if you're still in Madagascar.
JosephBullock
I didn't know that they had flowers. Mighty flowery for a drab, but extraordinary tree.

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PublishedMay 4, 2011

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