The Baobab tree is the icon of Africa. Often called the ‘up side down tree’ because of it’s haphazard branches, it is however one of the most magnificent trees on the African plains. The baobab tree dots the landscape of Limpopo with its majestic presence and seeing this tree in its natural environment is a must for every tourist who comes to South Africa.
Local people protect the tree because of it’s importance in their daily lives. The tree provides shelter from the sun, it’s leaves can be eaten like spinach, it’s fruit provide a rich source of Vitamin C, it’s bark can be used to make rope and its seeds for making oil.
Around every Baobab tree live a host of animals. Monkeys clamber up its branches, leopards are sometimes seen resting on a limb, parrots and hornbills nest in holes in the tree and bats eat the pollen from the Baobab flowers.
3 comments:
Lovely photos of the Baobab tree. and very enteresting article. xx
Great pictures of what looks like an amazing country! I must however say that there appears to be very few black people about. Are the white in the majority in the major centres you have shown?
I myself am black and I acknowledge the the fact of blacks absence is truly a concern but things are changing as the results of the black African is because of the history. We just 15 years into democracy but we will one day concur.
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