Seuss book. 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 ...

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 ...

which may have influenced the different tree species’ flower structures. Additionally, researchers determined that lower sea levels allowed baobab trees to better thrive across Madagascar.