What is the common name of the Adansonia species of tree native to Africa and Australia that is noted for its capacity to store enormous quantity of water?
"large baobabs, to which slaves were chained. The chains were wrapped around their trunks or around the roots. Similarly, two trees at Salaga in central Ghana are reminders of the slave trade. One, located at the former slave market at the center of town, was replanted at the site of the original to which slaves were shackled. A second larger tree marks the slave cemetery, where bodies of dead slaves were dumped. Adansonia digitata Adansonia digitata, the baobab, is the most widespread tree species of the genus ""Adansonia"", the baobabs, and is native to the African continent. The long-lived pachycauls"
"by the botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in 1858 in the work ""Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae"". It was reclassified in 1982 into the genus ""Allocasuarina"" by Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson in the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. The name of the species honours the Belgian botanist Joseph Decaisne, who had never visited Australia or ever seen the tree. The tree was particularly useful to Indigenous Australian peoples who used the trees as a source of water. Water can be collected from tree hollows but surface roots could also be broken off in sections to provide potable water by draining the root"
"in moist shady forest, both coastal and montane, at an altitude of up to 1280 m, often in the company of ""Dicksonia antarctica"". It is a relatively hardy species and a popular landscape and container plant. Provided moisture levels remain high, it will tolerate frost and full sun, or shade in warmer regions. Although well known in its native country, this species is not common in cultivation outside of Australia. The 1889 book 'The Useful Native Plants of Australia records how the pulp of the top of the trunk was eaten raw and roasted by Indigenous Australians. This whitish substance"
"tall and a trunk diameter of 50 cm (20 in). In larger plants the trunk may be irregular in shape with flanges. Bark is greyish brown and somewhat wrinkled in larger trees. Small branches are green and fairly thick, though smooth. ""M. acuminatum"" has been considered by some authors to encompass ""Myoporum montanum"". The two species are closely and related and ""M. montanum"" has an overlapping range. The common name Waterbush is originally derived from ""M. montanum"", which grows throughout arid central Australia as well as coastal regions, and whose presence is thought to be indicative of groundwater. The species"
"south eastern Australian rainforests. The tree fern forms outgrowths of fibrous rootlets on its erect rhizome that forming a strong trunk. This trunk provides a substrate on which other plants can germinate and grow. Dicksonia Antarctica needs moisture to grow and resents dry soils. Commonly known as mother shield fern Polystichum proliferum, favors moist cool areas with filtered shade, hence why it grows abundantly in cool temperate rainforests. The fern grows terrestrially along its rhizome in the ground and can form a strong trunk up to 10 cm high. Rumohra adiantiformis, also known by the name of Leathery shieldfern or"
"Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Niger, Nigeria, n-Cameroon, Chad, Sudan, Congo, DR Congo (Zaire), Eritrea, Ethiopia, s-Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, Angola, Sao Tome, Príncipe isl., Annobon isl., Java (introduced), Nepal (introduced), Sri Lanka (introduced), Philippines (introduced), Jamaica (introduced), South Africa (Transvaal), Namibia, Botswana, Puerto Rico (introduced), Haiti (introduced), Dominican Republic (introduced), Venezuela (introduced), Seychelles (introduced), Madagascar (introduced), Comores (introduced), India (introduced), sw-Yemen, Oman (Dhofar), China (introduced), Guangdong (introduced), Fujian (introduced), Yunnan (introduced). ""Adansonia"" trees produce faint growth rings, probably annually, but they are not reliable for aging specimens, because they are difficult to count and may fade"
"""Acacia williamsiana"" and the endangered Severn River heath-myrtle (""Micromyrtus grandis"") and understory shrubs such as ""Leucopogon neo-anglicus"" and fringe myrtle (""Calytrix tetragona""). It has been recorded as a host plant for the orange mistletoe (""Dendrophthoe glabrescens""). Its shaggy bark gives the species its horticultural potential. It is frost hardy and able to tolerate poor soils. Allocasuarina inophloia Allocasuarina inophloia, also known as woolly oak, or stringybark she-oak, is a shrub or small tree of the she-oak family Casuarinaceae endemic to inland New South Wales and Queensland. The hairy bark is an unusual feature. First collected near Roma in central Queensland,"
"watercourses growing in rocky sand, clay or loam soils around areas of limestone or quartz. Acacia synchronicia Acacia synchronicia, commonly known as bardi bush, is a shrub or tree of the genus ""Acacia"" and the subgenus ""Phyllodineae"" endemic to Australia. The spreading spinescent shrub or tree typically grows to a height of but can be as high as . It has an openly branched habit with one or many main stems arising from the base. The grey bark is longitudinally fissured at the base of the main stems and is smoother on the upper branches and can be bronze through"
"Dawsonia (plant) Dawsonia is a genus of acrocarpous mosses. ""Dawsonia"", along with other members of the order Polytrichales, are taller than most mosses and have thicker leaves. Their sporophytes have conducting systems analogous to those of vascular plants. ""Dawsonia superba"" is found in New Zealand, Australia and New Guinea. ""Dawsonia longifolia"" is found in the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Australia. ""Dawsonia superba"" and ""Dawsonia longifolia"" may be the same species. ""Dawsonia"" was named in honor of Dawson Turner (1775–1858), distinguished cryptogamist and friend of Robert Brown. Moss gametophytes lack internal transport tissues, which, coupled with the absence of cuticles, leads"
"are heavy bearing. Davidsonia johnsonii Davidsonia johnsonii, commonly known as smooth Davidson's plum, is a small tree native to rainforests of eastern Australia. The leaves are compound, glossy and hairless. It is a very rare tree in the wild, but is cultivated for its edible fruit. The fruit is a deep burgundy colour, with a sour flavour and is popular in jams. It is cultivated in small plantations. Due to infertile seeds it can only be propagated from cuttings or division. Hence all cultivated material is derived from clones of wild plants. Plants take at least six years to produce"
"resemble the pods of the hop plant. Acacia craspedocarpa Acacia craspedocarpa, commonly known as hop mulga, is a tree in the family Fabaceae. Endemic to Western Australia, it occurs in watercourses, on floodplains and alongside rivers throughout south-central Western Australia. Hop mulga is a spreading, shrubby tree that can grow to three metres but it is usually smaller. Like most ""Acacia"" species, it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. These are bluish green, about two centimetres long and one centimetres wide. The flowers are yellow, and held in cylindrical clusters up to two centimetres long and five millimetres in diameter."
"woodland slopes and moist gullies, and they occasionally occur at high altitudes in cloud forests. ""Dicksonia antarctica"" is the most abundant tree fern in South Eastern Australia. The plant can grow in acid, neutral and alkaline soils. It can grow in semi-shade. It strongly resents drought or dryness at the roots, and does best in moist soil. ""Dicksonia antarctica"" grows best in areas of rainfall of over 1,000 mm per year but in lower rainfall areas does well in moist gullies. It is tolerant of fire and re-shoots readily after re-location. It can provide habitat for epiphytes and also provides"
"Alphitonia excelsa Alphitonia excelsa, commonly known as the red ash or soap tree, is a species of tree in the Rhamnaceae family. It is endemic to Australia, being found in New South Wales, Queensland, Northern Territory and the northeastern tip of Western Australia. It is used in bush regeneration as a pioneer species and for amenity planting. ""Alphitonia excelsa"" was first described by Eduard Fenzl and reclassified by George Bentham. One of 20 species of the genus ""Alphitonia"" in Australia and the Pacific Islands, its specific epithet is derived from the Latin ""excelsus"" 'tall'. Other common names include Red Almond,"
"rate of species endemicity in all the western dry deciduous forests of Madagascar, for both flora and fauna; this rate is thought to be higher than for the eastern rainforests, although the biodiversity, while extremely high, is slightly less than the eastern counterparts. Geologically the tsingy formations have numerous subterranean caverns (used by early tribesmen) and karst formations, which provide underground water storage. The forest canopy contains numerous species of deciduous trees, including at least two species of baobab, ""Adansonia rubrostipa"" and ""Adansonia madagascariensis"". In addition, trees such as ""Grewia ciclea"" (Malagasy name, andilambarika) and ""Terminalia catappa"" (Malagasy name: antafana)"
"Acacia pruinocarpa Acacia pruinocarpa, commonly known as black gidgee, gidgee or tawu, is a tree in the family Fabaceae. Endemic to Australia, it occurs throughout the arid centre, from Carnarvon, Western Australia, east to the Tanami Desert, Northern Territory and Mann Range, South Australia. It is especially common along watercourses and in low-lying areas that receive drainage. Black gidgee grows as an upright tree to twelve metres high, and with a girth of up to two metres or more. Like most ""Acacia"" species, it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. These are a grey-green colour, up to seventeen centimetres long"
"one frond is sterol while the other is fertile and also prefers wet habitats. Asplenium appendiculatum is a fern that grows in the understory of wet forests. The fern grows along its rhizome that spreads over the ground, rocks and up the trunks of Dicksonia Antarctica. Hypolepis ruglosa is a ground fern common to Tasmania’s cool temperate rainforests. The fern is more common in high altitude, wet rainforests. This fern is easily identified by the red-brown color of the frond stems and like Histiopteris incisa, grows most abundantly in disturbed areas. Dicksonia Antarctica is the most common tree fern in"
"(including a group of four) in the City Parks Department in Mutare. Big Tree at Victoria Falls The Big Tree - is a large baobab of the species ""Adansonia digitata"" in Zimbabwe, close to the Victoria Falls. It has sometimes been called Livingstone's tree erroneously. Unusually for a baobab it has both an impressive girth and is very tall. It measures 22.40 metres in girth (2004) and is 24 metres tall (1985). The explorer and missionary David Livingstone who discovered the Victoria Falls for the British Empire (naming the Falls for his queen) carved his name in 1855 into a"
"vehicles. Boab Prison Tree, Derby The Boab Prison Tree, Derby is a 1,500 year old, large hollow ""Adansonia gregorii"" (Boab) tree 6 kilometres south of Derby, Western Australia with a girth of 14.7 metres. It had been reputed to have been used in the 1890s as a lockup for indigenous Australian prisoners on their way to Derby for sentencing. There is no evidence that the Derby Prison Tree was ever used for holding prisoners. Kristyn Harman and Elizabeth Grant traced the prison tree myth back to 1948. Around that time, a prominent artist Vlase Zanalis spent eight months camping in"
"and soak for a day or two, to drown insect larvae. This rheophyte species grows in riverine subtropical or gallery rainforest on deep rich alluvial and basalt soils at altitudes of up to 300 m above sea level. Syzygium hodgkinsoniae Syzygium hodgkinsoniae is a rare subtropical rainforest tree, growing on alluvial soils by streams in the north east New South Wales and south east Queensland, Australia. The range of natural distribution is from the Richmond River, New South Wales to Gympie in south east Queensland. Common names include smooth-bark rose apple or red lilly pilly. ""Syzygium hodgkinsoniae"" is a small"
"to tea as a spring tonic. Traditional British folklore states that if a sprig of Agrimonia eupatoria was placed under a person's head, they would sleep until it was removed. Agrimonia Agrimonia (from the Greek ), commonly known as agrimony, is a genus of 12–15 species of perennial herbaceous flowering plants in the family Rosaceae, native to the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with one species also in Africa. The species grow to between tall, with interrupted pinnate leaves, and tiny yellow flowers borne on a single (usually unbranched) spike. ""Agrimonia"" species are used as food plants by the"
"seed and typically starts producing a crop by year four. It produces large crops of fruit from the trunk, and bagging is used to protect the fruit from sunburn and Australian king parrots. It likes protection from full sun and wind when young, adequate soil moisture, and good soil nutrition. Davidsonia jerseyana Davidsonia jerseyana, also known as Davidson's plum or Mullumbimby plum, is a small, slender subtropical rainforest tree up to high. The hairy leaves are compound and long, with 11–17 leaflets. It is endemic to a restricted area of northern New South Wales on the east coast of Australia."
"Acacia cuspidifolia Acacia cuspidifolia, commonly known as wait-a-while or bohemia, is a tree in the family Fabaceae. Endemic to Western Australia, it occurs on the floodplains east of Carnarvon. Wait-a-while grows to a height of about eight metres. It usually has many main stems, with foliage down to ground level. Like most ""Acacia"" species, it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. These are green, three to seven centimetres long, and two to five millimetres wide. They terminate in a spine about two millimetres long. Hooked spines up to five millimetres long also occur in the axils of leaves and stems."
"Acacia victoriae Acacia victoriae, commonly known as gundabluie or bardi bush, is a shrub-like tree native to Australia. Subspecies: ""A. victoriae"" subsp. ""arida"" Pedley Native to Australia in arid and semi-arid areas, the ""Acacia victoriae"" is generally found in alkaline soils including clayey alluvials, grey cracking clays and saline loams on floodplains, alluvial flats, rocky hillsides and ridges. Animals such as birds and small mammals are known to use the tree as protection. The seeds and foliage also offer a source of food to animals. Mature ""Acacia victoriae"" grow into a shrub-like tree with multiple trunks. They reach a height"
"cabinet and joinery work. It is an excellent carving wood. The weight is between 800 and 850 kilograms per cubic metre. Flindersia bennettii Flindersia bennettii is an Australian rainforest tree in the citrus family. It is known as the Bennett's Ash, named after the naturalist, Dr. George Bennett. It occurs mainly in streamside, seaside or subtropical rainforest. The natural range of distribution is from the Clarence River, New South Wales to Bundaberg in south eastern Queensland. A tree up to 40 metres in height, and a trunk diameter of 90 cm. The trunk is cylindrical and tall with moderately smooth"
"Atkinsonia Atkinsonia is a parasitic shrub with oppositely set, entire leaves and yellowish, later rusty-red colored flowers, that is found in Eastern Australia. It is a monotypic genus, the only species being A. ligustrina, and is assigned to the showy mistletoe family. It is sometimes called Louisa's mistletoe. ""Atkinsonia ligustrina"" is a stout upright evergreen shrub of 1–2 m high, that parasitises on the roots of other woody plants, but photosynthesises for itself. It has twenty four chromosomes (2n=24). The primary roots are long-lived, fleshy, bear many scars, and turn blue when damaged. Secondary roots bearing the taproots (or haustoria)"
"under extreme conditions, by pseudovivipary method. Recent research has shown that ""Posidonia australis"" can sequester carbon 35 times more efficiently than rainforests. This species is found in waters around the southern coast of Australia. In Western Australia is occurs in the Shark Bay region, around islands of the Houtman Abrolhos, and southward along the coast of the Swan Coastal Plain. The species is recorded at the edge of the Esperance Plains, the Archipelago of the Recherche, at the southern coast of the southwest region. The range extends to the east to coastal areas of New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania,"
"exported to Europe as a ‘pepper.’ In the eastern part of Nigeria, the plant's fruit is an essential ingredient in preparation of local soups to aid new mothers in breastfeeding. It remains an important item of local trade throughout Africa as a spice, and flavouring for food and for medicine. The fruit is sometimes put into jars of water for purification purposes. Xylopia aethiopica Xylopia aethiopica is an evergreen, aromatic tree, of the Annonaceae family that can grow up to 20m high. It is a native to the lowland rainforest and moist fringe forests in the savanna zones of Africa."
"Acacia. On the steep upper slopes and mountain-tops is Peninsula Sandstone Fynbos, a less severely endangered vegetation type with a different range of species, including a vast number of endemics. This tiny ecosystem (restricted to the upper slopes of Table Mountain) has an extraordinarily rich biodiversity, with roughly the same number of plant species as can be found in the whole of the United Kingdom. In addition, smaller patches of indigenous Afro-temperate forest survive in the river valleys. Such areas that are protected from the seasonal fires of fynbos, become dominated by massive trees such as Yellowwoods, Ironwoods, Assegai trees,"
"Allanblackia floribunda Allanblackia floribunda, known in English as 'tallow tree', is a species of flowering plant in the Clusiaceae family that has been long used in traditional African medicine to treat hypertension. It is a common understory tree in rain-forests in western central Africa - from Sierra Leone to W Cameroons, and on into the DR Congo and Uganda. The medium-sized tree (up to 30 meters tall) is evergreen and dioecious (male and female flowers on different plants). The wood is said to be resistant to termites but is not particularly durable. It is fairly easy to work and finishes"
"at Paris after months of severe suffering, requesting, as the only decoration of his grave, a garland of flowers gathered from the fifty-eight families he had differentiated – ""a touching though transitory image,"" says Georges Cuvier, ""of the more durable monument which he has erected to himself in his works."" Besides the books already mentioned he published papers on the ship-worm, the baobab tree (whose generic name ""Adansonia"" commemorates Adanson), the origin of the varieties of cultivated plants, and gum-producing trees. His papers and herbarium remained in his family's hands for over a century and a half, finally coming to"
"Acacia saligna Acacia saligna, commonly known by various names including coojong, golden wreath wattle, orange wattle, blue-leafed wattle, Western Australian golden wattle, and, in Africa, Port Jackson willow, is a small tree in the family Fabaceae. Native to Australia, it is widely distributed throughout the south west corner of Western Australia, extending north as far as the Murchison River, and east to Israelite Bay. The Noongar peoples know the tree as Cujong. ""Acacia saligna"" grows as a small, dense, spreading tree with a short trunk and a weeping habit. It grows up to eight metres tall. Like many ""Acacia"" species,"
"Because it is able to grow at a moderate rate, it has also been used as site rehabilitation. Acacia victoriae Acacia victoriae, commonly known as gundabluie or bardi bush, is a shrub-like tree native to Australia. Subspecies: ""A. victoriae"" subsp. ""arida"" Pedley Native to Australia in arid and semi-arid areas, the ""Acacia victoriae"" is generally found in alkaline soils including clayey alluvials, grey cracking clays and saline loams on floodplains, alluvial flats, rocky hillsides and ridges. Animals such as birds and small mammals are known to use the tree as protection. The seeds and foliage also offer a source of"
"of lemon-yellow, globular flower heads, profusely borne in panicles, lasting four to six weeks. This wattle is very popular in cultivation. Acacia boormanii Acacia boormanii (common name : Snowy River wattle) is a medium, (sometimes) suckering, multi-stemmed, copse-forming shrub, belonging to the genus Acacia. Its native range is the Snowy River in the alpine country of south eastern Australia. It thrives best on well drained soils, but also tolerates compacted clay soils or soils with some salinity. This evergreen, frost-hardy, rounded shrub grows to a height of 4.50 m (15 feet), and a diameter of 1.80 to 3.60 m (6"