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Adansonia digitata (baobab)

Adansonia digitata Common Names: in English:  African baobab, baobab (from the Arabic buhibab = the fruit with many seeds), baobab Giriama, bottle tree, cream-of-tartar tree, cream of tartar, Ethiopian sour gourd, Judas’s bag, lemonade tree, monkey bread, monkey bread tree, monkey bread tree of Africa in French: pain de singe in Burkina Faso: boki, bou touobou, ek lou, hor go, koukoulou, olohi, poh go, sira in Congo: mukondo in East Africa: maramba, mbuyu, ol-mesera in Ghana: odade in Ivory Coast: frondo, n’gigue, sira in Kenya: jag, lamai, mauyu, mbuyu, mlamba, muamba, mubuyu, muguna-kirindi, muramba, muuyu, muyu, mwaamba, olmesera, yak, yaka in Mali: nsira, sira in Nigeria: bumbu, kuka, muchi, murna, ose, usi in Senegal: bui, gif, gui in S. Rhodesia: muBuyu, mGuya, umKomo, muWiyu, muMungu in Southern Africa: kremertartboom, kremertart; isiMuku, umShimulu, is...