The name Baobab is derived from the Arabic “bu hibab”, which means “fruit with many seeds”. This also makes sense because one fruit of the tree has between 120 and 200 seeds.

In science, the baobab tree is called Adansonia digitata.

The tree has many names in different languages.

For example, in Senegal the baobab is called Gouye in the Wolof language.

The Baobab tree can live up to a thousand years.
The baobab tree grows slowly and its first fruits only appear when it is twenty-five or thirty years old.

Its fruit is called Bouye in the Wolof language.

The flesh is light beige, quite firm and falls apart when it dries and sets. Visually it reminds of dry bread.

The taste is acidic due to the high vitamin C content, similar to citrus fruits. It lies between grapefruit, pear and vanilla. The fruits are a real superfood. They contain:

• 10 times more vitamin C than oranges
• 30 times more fibre than salad
• 5 times more magnesium than avocados
• 6 times more potassium than bananas
• 2 times more calcium than cow’s milk

Touching the bowl can cause irritation to the skin. However, the shell is not poisonous.

The leaves of the Baobab tree are edible and are often prepared with millet and couscous.

Baobab oil has a beautifying and rejuvenating effect.

It has a particularly high content of essential fatty acids and has a moisture-binding effect.

Baobab oil thus regenerates the tissue and protects the skin against moisture loss.

The oil is also suitable as care for skin and hair, as well as massage oil.

The sacred boabab tree in Senegal has a mythical meaning.

Native women believe that the tree can facilitate births. They therefore perform certain rituals on the sacred tree.

This is how a woman who has a great desire to have children leaves her house secretly at dusk without anyone knowing where she is going. In a calabash filled with rainwater, she puts in medicinal plants and two cola nuts before taking her bath on the baobab tree.

The baobab grows in Southern and Eastern Africa and West Africa.

people have sold the Baobab seeds. That’s why today it also grows in India, the Caribbean or Florida.

A variety of the Baobab tree can also be found in Australia and Madagascar.