The red cedar is also found in Asia, and Australia serves as the regional genetic hotspot of the Illawarra flame genus, Brachychiton. But there is one remarkable Australian deciduous tree that doesn’t ...

The so-called prison tree is a large hollow boab just south of Derby in Western Australia. It is reputed to have been used in the 1890s as a holding cell for Aboriginal prisoners on their way to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Although the boab tree has been a Kimberley icon for years, scientists only recently discovered its leaves had a very high iron content. Research suggests the iron content of a boab leaf is 26 ...

An iconic 1000-year-old boab tree in the Kimberly region of Western Australia fell on Thursday after heavy rains filled up its hollow branches and caused it to become top heavy.

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 ...

1000-year-old iconic boab tree at Ellenbrae Station falls after heavy rains Heather McNeill Updated May 8, 2016 — 7.39amfirst published May 7, 2016 — 4.06pm Normal text size Larger text size ...

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 ...

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 ...

This boab is just 5.5 meters in diameter, making it the smallest carved tree found during the expedition. S. O’Connor ...

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 ...