Rebelo, a senior researcher in the water science unit at South Africa’s Agricultural Research Council, and other scientists. Their paper found that clearing mature infestations of alien trees ...

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But the oldest living organisms in Africa – baobab trees – are abundant. These spectral behemoths blend into the Saharan countryside and have been an icon of the African savannah since millennia.

South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. “The trees that are falling over are at the southern range of the distribution of baobabs,” said Stephan Woodborne with South Africa’s National Research ...

Two tree species once feared extinct have been discovered in a threatened coastal forest in the African country of Tanzania. The two species have made reappearances before, but both trees ...

How these trees then reached continental Africa and Australia is still unclear. In the past, some have proposed that baobab fruits may have been carried by ocean currents and, in the case of ...