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- sirloin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+57check out the world champ baobab
http://www.championtrees.org/champions/images/baobab.jpg
that thing is insanely immense, the branches are monstrous - The_Wallbanger, on 10/12/2007, -3/+35They look like trees I used to draw as a kid.
- freeshri, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24anyone read "the little prince"?
- tpodr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10And then there is this "male" version I found searching at flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/44124349872@N01/362511458/ - drjekelmrhyde, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6http://www25.tok2.com/home/sakuda/01world/04africa/madag05.jpg
http://www.wg32.net/~willy/Scenic/1024x768/Baobab%20Trees,%20Madagascar,%20Africa.jpg
nice shots of them - gkjones, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7@NervousSystem
those japanese trees - bonsai - are ... nevermind. - GTPilot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6also look like trees you would see on a Yes album.
- Zoctogon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6The book deals with a lot of hidden meanings and metaphors, which obviously you could not see. You're as bad as the shallow characters which it depicts.
- tacojohn48, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5They look like something you might end up getting in one of those grow games. (grow cube or grow rpg)
- D3koy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Doesn't everyone HAVE to read that book...
- drake89, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5ive been to africa a few times and those things are awesome! ive seen the (maybe one of the) worlds largest near victoria falls. they are truly a sight to behold. also, they make tartar sauce out of the fruit.
- illahtech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"In some parts of Africa, people believe that poets and musicians are possessed by the devil, and that their bodies will pollute the earth if given a normal burial. Thus they are consigned to the bowels of a baobab."
For whatever reason that part made me laugh... - andreas1999, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@teekee:
Amazing how you managed to get a WoW reference in to a story about trees! Now if we can only get a Bush reference and a "but will it blend?" joke in here we can wrap this up and move on to the next article! - mangojump, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2well actually, there is a baobab near victoria falls, apparently it's one of the oldest
If you don't believe me, this place does tours of the falls, and they start with the baobab
http://www.ambulasafaris.com/vic-tours.asp - dschep, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Oh man, I remember reading that as a kid. Great book, I always think of it whenever I see something about a Baobab. (Read it in French, my mom's French)
- Ivand, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3awesome book btw
- FlapJaw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://www.championtrees.org/champions/images/baobab.jpg
OMFG - Harbinger67, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Speaking of trees on a good cd, those trees are featured on either the inside booklet or back cover of the live Pink Floyd album "The Delicate Sound of Thunder".
Just thought I'd throw that out there :p - mahdaeng, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"the little prince" is the first thought that came to mind when i saw the title of this piece
:^) - oxigen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"It is perhaps an exaggeration to say that baobabs are beautiful" That's not true, baobabs! I Think you're beautiful and I love you!
/treehugger - AoiTakuma, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Isn't it great God would put trees like that so people in the desert could have food and water and jails
/sarcasm - greves, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I always wondered what baobobs were, ever since I read the Little Prince. Cool!
- everfalling, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Methuselah tree > Baobab in terms of longevity.
- the_penguin_boy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"...the fony, the grandidieri, and the za. These names are derived from their physical characteristics, which are bottle shaped, flat-topped or upside-down respectively."
Wha??? - AoiTakuma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My French class was forced to watch an English language movie of the book after reading it. The book was good, the movie was not.
- D3koy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That personin the first one looks creepy, but the tree is freaking huge....
- Killeroid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3dude,wtf? baobab trees dont grow in wet/humid places, you couldn't have seen a baobab
ps: i am from africa(Ghana) - DavidDigg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hmm... I wonder if they would survive a nukewar. Well, only one way to find out!
- pawnticket, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@Killeroid
Baobabs can live in wet climate. Africa is a big place. Have you been to Madagascar or East Africa. Sifikiri bwana. - udontsay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Funny word "baobab".
When I was learning my ABCs they used that word a lot to help you with Bs.
Until today I had never seen on, living in Quebec/Canada and all that :)
Today's cool Digg fact brought to you by the lettre "B". - NervousSystem, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2This is like a HUGE version of those Japanese Trees that don't grow more than a foot. I would love to see these around my area.
- draebor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Man, screw eco-homes... I'm gonna live inside one of those like the kid from My Side of the Mountain.
- arnar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Upside-down trees in Australia - I wondered about stuff like that when I was a kid. :o)
- MOJIRA, on 05/17/2008, -0/+1You know trees without leaves sort of look the same right side up as they do upside down...
- pawnticket, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I was always curious, but the Baobab only blooms at night and then the flowers fall to the ground the next morning. I couldn't figure out why, but it makes sense. Bats. Good article. Also, even though the article says they have good roots, the trees are so heavy that sometimes the tree fall over during the large rainy season when the ground gets to soft, but the trees continue to grow.
- aviazn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Anybody hear the opera that Rachel Portman wrote? The baobabs get their own aria, it's great.
- pawnticket, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The Barrens in WoW is roughly based on the Serengeti in Tanzania, which has plenty of Baobabs. So, they did some research in designing that environment.
- crossers, on 07/22/2008, -0/+0oh I so like nature. baobabs very interesting trees.
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http://www.chasr.org/ - masskurec, on 03/03/2009, -0/+0blasted trees
http://xptweak.net - Zwirko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What's this "300 litre" figure the article uses? This is a surely a tiny amount ... a big drum's worth and bit.
I'm sure these trees can store thousands (up to 50,000 or more) litres of water. - Grokodaemon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0In Australia we have Boab trees in the Kimberley region (northwestern Australia). Not sure if those are the same sort of tree, theyre a lot shorter and stubbier, but they look quite similiar to these "Baobabs"
- TekeeTakShak, on 10/12/2007, -6/+5At first sight, it looked like something from World of Warcraft...shows you how much I play that damn game >_
- LemonDefragger, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1You have to read it in French though, the English version is poorly translated.
- saikhan, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2Totally, I just bought one of these from WallMart the other day for my backyard.
- tehl3x, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1digg down
- realyst, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0Horrible flashbacks of having to read "Le Petit Prince" in high school....
(Le Petit Prince = The Little Prince; Think Super Mario Galaxy, except it's a French young children's book that academic people just love to claim is aimed for adults, though it really isn't. It dealt a lot with Boababs) - Cyre, on 10/12/2007, -22/+2That looks shopped to me.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -30/+5i thought the title said blowjob.
i clicked
was disappointed
:(
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