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Post your Baobabs

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in TROPICAL LOOKING PLANTS - Other Than Palms

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This photo was taken in February at Mounts:IMG_2058.thumb.jpeg.a74afab2294ec429c59af3bfafcb2e34.jpeg

What you look for is what is looking

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    What you look for is what is looking

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    The same tree in March

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    Has it bloomed / leafed-out?

    Sadly my Adansonia digitata was not getting enough heat or too short a season of heat compared to what it required.  It would get new leaves in mid-summer and had a short growing season.  I finally gave up and dug it out.  I put it in a pot to give to a friend who lives in Vista, where hopefully it is getting the heat that it needs.  It has been a little over a year now since I gave up.  I love these trees.  Had it grown the way they want to, I would have had to remove it eventually as well, as it would have outgrown my garden.  That would have been a problem I would have enjoyed having.

    33.0782 North -117.305 West  at 72 feet elevation

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    Do you believe they may do better in the desert?

    What you look for is what is looking

    29 minutes ago, bubba said:

    Do you believe they may do better in the desert?

    Perhaps in the right protected low desert spot that doesn't get cold on winter nights.  That said, I don't know how they would like exceptionally dry conditions at times of the year.  I am almost certain that mine came from Florida, as I got it from George Sparkman.  So we know they handle humidity and wet conditions just fine.  I took pictures of the one in botanical garden behind Waimea surf break on the north shore of Oahu many years ago when I was there.  I also recall seeing this same species on the other side of the island growing in the gardens on the way up to Koko Crater.  So it is the inverse of this that I don't know about, predominantly dry and dependent on irrigation as opposed to rainfall.

    33.0782 North -117.305 West  at 72 feet elevation

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