Baobabs, the iconic bottle trees of Africa and Madagascar, have a single relative, the boab, living in the Kimberley region of northwest Australia. No one knows when and how the boab came across from ...
We investigate the origins of Western Australia’s iconic boab tree, whose only living relatives survive far away in Africa. Australia isn’t known for its deciduous trees. Across vast swathes of forest ...
In a study published recently in PLOS ONE, we solve one part of this mystery by showing that ancient Aboriginal peoples were responsible for spreading the boab in the Kimberley. An early hypothesis ...
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