Food Plants International - Plant Fact Sheets Adansonia grandidieri
Edible: Leaves, Seeds, Fruit, Vegetable
A large deciduous tree. It grows 30 m tall. It has a very large pole like trunk. It has only a few, short, stubby branches. It is bare of leaves for most of the year. It develops leaves during times of rain. The leaves have 5 small leaflets which are wavy at the edges. The flowers are small, erect and white. The seeds are large and oily.
It only grows naturally in western Madagascar. It suits hardiness zones 10-12. In Brisbane Botanical Gardens.
Common Names: Giant boabab, Bao-bap, Baobab malgache, Grandidier's boabab, Renala, Reniala, Renibeala