The baobab is not one tree like the others. Gray, massive, huge, it has all the "pachyderm" plant. And if the baobab from southern Madagascar is the giant of the family (20-25 meters high), its African cousin reports by an impressive waist size: 24.50 meters (8-meter) for the largest known around Dakar (Senegal).
Mostly bare, leafless, shadowless, crushed Sun, baobab tends its short and winding branches skyward, its strange silhouette standing out with an amazing omnipresence in the vast semi-desert.
In Senegal, the baobab seems to enjoy the vicinity of the sea, as found in large numbers in the peninsula of Cape Verde and throughout the coastline, which stretches to the South of Dakar. Locating in the sandy soils of the coast, it juts sometimes in the same vicinity of the strike. It is also widespread in the Sudanese area, penetrating far to the North and East in the Sahel region, sinking in the South until bordering the Gulf of Guinea. That it has been said that the Baobab Tree was the tree type of West African...
