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nice Baobab Tree in Delray Beach, FL

Eric in Orlando

By Eric in Orlando
in TROPICAL LOOKING PLANTS - Other Than Palms

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I spotted this nice Baobab Tree (Adansonia digitata) specimen near downtown Delray Beach, FL (between Palm Beach and Ft. Lauderdale). Give it another 100-200 years and it will look like the giant trees in Africa !

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Eric

Orlando, FL

zone 9b/10a

Peter Grand Master

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Very cool!

San Fernando Valley, California

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they do get big quickly. We have 6 different ones...need help confirming id tho

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Cindy Adair

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Believe it or not, this one has been in the ground in Puerto Rico for several years. I started it from seed in my Virginia greenhouse. A really slow one for me, but perhaps someone a hundred years from now will be really glad I planted it!

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Eric in Orlando

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I love the 2 big specimens at Fairchild and the big one at The Kampong in Miami.

Eric

Orlando, FL

zone 9b/10a

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I've been driving past literally hundreds and hundreds of them most of today. Also will be most of tomorrow, until I get out of the Kimberley and Vic River regions. Adansonia gregori. Most of the bigger ones have been badly graffitied, because it's along the major road. There were some fantastic shapes amongst them, there sure are some artistic genes in their makeup.

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Nice find Eric. I'll defiantly give this a drive by. I think i know where it is, but I don't know why I haven't noticed it before.

"If you need me, I'll be outside" -Randy Wiesner Palm Beach County, Florida Zone 10Bish

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Jerry@TreeZoo

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It is nice to see something other than the same old tree used in a commercial landscape.

Randy, I googled it, in the Check Cashing Store on Atlantic, just west of Swinton. I never saw it either because traffic there is always so busy you don't have a chance to look around when you are driving.

So many species,

so little time.

Coconut Creek, Florida

Zone 10b (Zone 11 except for once evey 10 or 20 years)

Last Freeze: 2011,50 Miles North of Fairchilds

Eric in Orlando Grand Master

Eric in Orlando

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Its right near downtown.

Eric

Orlando, FL

zone 9b/10a

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Wasn't there a really big one down there somewhere, maybe associated with a old restaurant or something? Seems like I remember something like that, but it could have been another tree species.

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There are some huge ones in Disney's Animal Kingdom....oops, actually they are fake, they did a good job on them though.

Corpus Christi, TX, near salt water, zone 9b/10a! Except when it isn't and everything gets nuked.

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http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1985-04-02/news/8501120336_1_tree-baobab-banyan

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Nice.

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I've been driving past literally hundreds and hundreds of them most of today. Also will be most of tomorrow, until I get out of the Kimberley and Vic River regions. Adansonia gregori. Most of the bigger ones have been badly graffitied, because it's along the major road. There were some fantastic shapes amongst them, there sure are some artistic genes in their makeup.

Very cool ! I have some young seedlings of A. gregorii to try here.

Eric

Orlando, FL

zone 9b/10a

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There are some huge ones in Disney's Animal Kingdom....oops, actually they are fake, they did a good job on them though.

There are actually some nice ones at AK in the village that are real. All the ones on the savannah are used to hide feeders.

Eric

Orlando, FL

zone 9b/10a

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Wasn't there a really big one down there somewhere, maybe associated with a old restaurant or something? Seems like I remember something like that, but it could have been another tree species.

Are you thinking of the old Kapok Tree Inn in St. Petersburg/Clearwater ? The big tree is actually a Bombax ceiba.

Eric

Orlando, FL

zone 9b/10a

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This is the Baobab that was saved

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Eric

Orlando, FL

zone 9b/10a

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