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The dry powder from the fruits are used to produce delicious and nutritious drinks, while the seeds are used to produce cooking and massage oils.
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The Baobab name originates from Arabic phrase ''bu hibab'' meaning fruit with many seeds. The fruit can contain several hundred seeds. Baobab belong to the Bombacaceae family of trees which includes the Kapok tree.
environments thanks to their water storage capacity in
their thick and swollen trunks which contain up to 80% water.
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The baobab only bear leaves in the rainy season and are leafless during
vitamin-rich drink.
The flavour of the pulp is similar is somewhere between marshmallow and tamarind. [[File:Baobab_014.jpg|600px]]
Baobab seeds are oilseeds,
acids which must be degraded by cooking to make
edible oil. The seeds are sometimes roasted and used for coffee.
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In the South, women prepare beauty masks from bark.
created woman by carving her from baobab wood. Many
other legends are dedicated to baobab.
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The tree has many legends, in particular, one African
that was a little too pretentious. One day, this angered
God who tore it up to punish him and replanted it upside down.
Another is that it was the devil who pulled out the tree and planted it upside down.
The fruits of baobabs
tens of meters high using
rudimentary ladders.
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All Malagasy species are included on the red list of endangered species.
bodies wrapped in shrouds are abandoned in
the forks of the branches.
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