How did they get these strange names? The largest and most striking tree in the Flower Dome, the African Baobab (Adansonia digitata), also known as the Upside Down Tree, is one of nature's most ...

Learn about 5 of the weirdest killer plants on the planet. Learn about the Corpse Flower, Pitcher Plant, Venus Fly Trap, African Baobab Tree and Gympie Gympie. The Corpse Flower native to the ...

Many of us first learned of this tree when reading “The Little Prince,” that classic children’s book by Antoine de ...

which may have influenced the different tree species’ flower structures. Additionally, researchers determined that lower sea ...

Baobab trees live to be very old and grow to be very tall. The Sunland “Big baobab” in Limpopo Province in South Africa reached 22 metres high and 47 metres in circumference before it toppled ...

Baobabs are also the longest-lived African trees; in 2011, a baobab that died in Zimbabwe at the age of 2,450 made it the oldest of all flowering plants to be documented on the African continent.