Since childhood, Loveness Bhitoni has picked baobab fruits from the gigantic trees surrounding her homestead in Zimbabwe to add variety to the family’s staple corn and millet diet. She never saw ...

The baobab tree is known as the “tree of life” and its fruit is feeding a growing global market for natural food and beauty products. But the people picking the ...

Many of us first learned of this tree when reading “The Little Prince,” that classic children’s book by Antoine de ...

Native to the African continent, the baobab is known as the "tree of life" for its resilience and is found from South Africa ...

However, the African baobab that is native to Sub-Saharan Africa is the only species authorised on the European market. The tree is native to Senegal, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Ghana, Benin ...

I was inspired to look more closely at this tree after reading a recent report on the frenzied baobab trade that has swept through Africa, especially in Zimbabwe, the center of Baobab activity ...