Let’s begin with a small attempt to understand one of Nature’s marvels. Looking like a misfit, the boab tree, also known as ...

The famous Boab prison tree found 5km south-east of the remote north-western WA town of Derby. Image credit: shutterstock The boab tree, an icon of the Kimberley. In 1820, on first encountering a boab ...

Looking like a misfit, the boab tree, also known as bottle tree or upside-down tree due to its freaky swollen trunk, is a venerable living thing that can, if it had a voice, narrate the passing of ...

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 ...

This myth has not gone unchallenged. In the 1960s, for example, the Australian Women’s Weekly reported that the boab outside Derby “was probably never used as a prison” tree.

In July last year, academics and Traditional Owners began to record the boab trees with carvings in the remote northern Tanami Desert. This area of the Tanami is extremely inaccessible.

Baobabs, the iconic bottle trees of Africa and Madagascar, have a single relative, the boab, living in the Kimberley region of northwest Australia. No one knows when and how the boab came across ...

image: The so-called "prison tree," a boab tree near Derby, Western Australia. view more Credit: Dr. Elizabeth Grant. New research involving the University of Adelaide is helping to expose a myth ...

Finding lost boab carvings. Boab trees grow in the northwestern corner of Australia. A survey (green rectangle) of a region on the edge of the Tanami Desert revealed a patch of boab trees carved ...

On a remote section of the Kimberley coast stands a centuries-old boab tree bearing an inscription ordered by Phillip Parker King, who helped complete the map of Australia — and for whom the ...