Quoting Alan C <[email protected]>:
Recently I posted a shot of a Boabab tree pushing over a wall. Some
viewers thought it was much older than I said. The local species is
Adansonia Digitata. The trunk does not have rings as in normal trees
but is more like a succulent, full of fibre, & able to hold a lot a
water. The rate of growth is very much dependent on the water
supply. This one was planted on the lawn outside the Chemlab at
Foskor (my former "empire") on National Tree Planting Day in 1980.
It has been watered along with the lawn virtually every day.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/wisselstroom/15211010131/in/photostream/lightbox/
That seems especially huge for 34 years - I'd have thought it was much older.
We have only one Adansonia species in Australia. One specimen is
quite famous as it was used as a prison in the early days of
settlement in the Kimberley region of Western Australia:
http://www.about-australia.com/attractions/boab-prison-tree/
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Cheers
Brian
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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
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