Descriptions ³

Tree up to 25 m tall, branches irregularly distributed, massive, bark grey and smooth. Leaves 5 - 7 foliolate, rarely 9, margin leaflet entire. Flowers produced during dryor wet season, with petals white. Fruits variable, ussually oblong, pericarp ussually yellow-brown or greenish.
Phenology:varies greatly between localities.

Ecology ⁴

Planted tree growing in a garden close to the sea

Similar species ⁴

Syn.
Adansonia bahobab L. ; Adansonia integrifolia Raf. ; Adansonia scutula Steud. ; Adansonia situla (Lour.) Spreng. ; Adansonia somalensis Chiov. ; Adansonia sphaerocarpa A.Chev. ; Baobabus digitata (L.) Kuntze ; Ophelus sitularius Lour.

Reference ⁴

• Madagascar Catalogue, 2013. Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Madagascar. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, U.S.A. & Antananarivo, Madagascar [http://www.efloras.org/madagascar].
• D. A. Baum. 1995. A systematic revision of Adansonia (bombacaceae). ANN. Missouri Bot. Gard. 82: 440-470.

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