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Baobab
Adansonia digitata
-22.6933, 31.0174
Field Notes
Description:
The classic image of the African savannah. A long-lived species (up to 1,500 years).
"The African baobab's fruit is 15–20 cm (6–8 in) long. It contains 50% more calcium than spinach, is high in antioxidants, and has three times the vitamin C of an orange" - Wikipedia
Habitat:
See reference http://www.krugerpark.co.za/Kruger_Park_Facts-travel/explore-kruger-par…
Northern Sandveld
This complicated and diverse habitat is restricted to the far north of Kruger - around Punda Maria and west of the tar road to Pafuri, the Luvuvhu and Limpopo river valleys and a pocket along the north-eastern Lebombo.
The sandveld has sandy, well-drained soils supporting a range of vegetation with no particular dominant species.
Characteristic trees of the sandveld include the syringas - white kirkia (Kirkia acuminata) and mountain kirkia (Kirkia wilmsii), pod mahogany (Afzelia quansensis), nyala (Xanthocercis zambesiaca), southern lala-palm (Hyphaene natalensis), fever tree (Acacia xanthophloea) tree mopane (Colophospermum mopane), and, of course, the mighty baobab (Adansonia digitata).
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