A boab tree with Indigenous markings showing a king brown snake. Source: Lewis Field Boabs are a particularly long-lived species, that may survive for up to 2000 years.

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 ...

The boab trees of the remote Tanami desert are carved with centuries of Indigenous history ... carved with images and symbols hundreds, and perhaps even thousands, of years ago.

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 ...

A boab tree carving showing a snake and an emu track. ... "They gave her that as a symbol to connect with her mother's dreaming, which is the boab dreaming," Mrs Garstone said.

First Nations Australians also used parts of the boab for medicine. While the culinary and health attributes of boabs are well known, less well known is that many of these trees are culturally ...

Boabs are fascinating things. They are the oldest living things in Australia, with some aged more than 1500 years, and among the oldest trees in the world.

Australia’s boab trees (Adansonia gregorii) are related to Africa’s baobabs that can live for 2,000 years. ... who engraved their bark with symbols resembling the famous rock art to the west.

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

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.

It takes the shape of art in the bark of iconic and bountiful boab trees. Our ne Sue O'Connor, Author providedAustralia’s Tanami desert is one of the most isolated and arid places on Earth.

Australia's Tanami desert is one of the most isolated and arid places on Earth. It's a hard place to access and an even harder place to survive.< ...