Since childhood, Loveness Bhitoni has collected fruit from the gigantic baobab trees surrounding her homestead in Zimbabwe to add variety to the family’s staple corn and millet diet. The 50-year-old ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Baobabs are unique trees. They are among the world’s longest-living trees, with some being over 2,000 years old. They can survive ...

Calling something the “tree of life” may conjure up a lush arboreal species with mouth-watering fruit. Yet on the African continent, this moniker is reserved for the baobab tree. Upon first glance, ...

This story was originally reported by Edward McAllister, Editing by Anna Willard for the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Until recently baobabs were only tapped for local use but in a major business shift ...

Ed Witkowski receives funding from National Research Foundation - Centre of Excellence in Tree Health Biotechnology (CTHB). Kelsey Glennon receives funding from the National Research Foundation.

The search for baobab fruits, scientifically known as Adansonia Digitata, has intensified in the Ziope Traditional Area of ...

Bhitoni wakes before dawn to go foraging for baobab fruit, walking barefoot though hot, thorny landscapes with the risk of wildlife attacks. She gathers sacks of the hard-shelled fruit from the ...