Baobab or Adansonia digitata is a tree commonly found in India, but it is also found in Africa and Australia.

This tree is a member of Malvaceae plant family.

This is a very big tree with the trunk of very large dimension at the base and gradually becoming narrower at the apex. The leave are compound, digitate and deciduous. The leaflets are 3-9, entire, obovate, acute. and petioles hairy. The flowers are whitish in color blossoming in night. The fruit is a big oblong,woody amphisarca, the cells are filled with farinaceous acid pulp. The seeds are reniform embedded in the pulp. The flowering season is May to June.