The boab (or bottle) tree (Adansonia gregorii) may live over 1,000 years, based on the dating of the closely related baobab trees in South Africa. They have very thick, often squat trunks that ...

MS Caledonian Sky. APT Touring "So the boab's existence in Australia remains a great mystery," says Restrepro over the hum of the engine, as she steers us away. I watch the enigmatic tree shrink ...

The ship His Majesty's Cutter (HMC) Mermaid is best known for its links to an enormous boab tree in a remote bay in Western Australia, but its voyages two centuries ago are an intriguing tale of ...

The earliest recordings of carvings on boab trees were made by the British artist and explorer, Thomas Baines, during the North Australian Expedition (1855–56) led by Augustus Gregory.

An ancient boab tree with a girth of 14.7 metres stands near the town of Derby in remote Western Australia. Boabs’ massive trunks and spindly branches create the rather intriguing illusion that ...

The boab tree is an incredible species found in far north-west Australia. The distinctive bulbous trunk and multitude of shapes makes it a photographer's hero.

For thousands of years our iconic Boab trees have provided Indigenous people with food, shelter and medicine. The tree is symbolic of Australia’s north-west and its fruit is now on the menu at ...

Figures Painted on Rocks and Carved on a Gouty Stem Tree, Thomas Baines (1820–1875) Collection of the Herbarium, Library, Art & Archives, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, CC BY-NC-SA ...

The tree’s gnarled trunk. Author provided But our research has found that the Derby boab was never used as an Aboriginal prison, a holding area or as a staging point. There is no evidence that ...