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There is some contention around this. For a while it seemed like there could be two species on mainland Africa (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adansonia_kilima) and while most happily accepted the return of the status quo with the paper that decided they were all the same, I'm not entirely convinced (source: I collected location and morphology info from lots of these trees a decade ago and a number of traits were very distinctly bi-modal, although this is of course not proof that they're actually separate species). The Australian author who described A. kilima thought it was the diploid ancestor of the Australian species, rather than A. digitata or any of the Madagascan species...
Thanks. Pay walls are annoying.
Definitely a special survivor. Reminds me of the alien-like dripping slime aerial roots of Sierra Mixe maize.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landrace
Other interesting endangered trees: https://www.treehugger.com/worlds-most-endangered-trees-also...
The Little Prince was not a fan of baobabs...
This is always what I think of when I see "baobab": https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/DiskUsageAnalyzer