ABSTRACT

Common names: baobab, dead rat tree, monkey-bread tree (this name is generally assumed to be derived from the fact that monkeys eat the baobab’s fruit), calebassier du Sénégal [French], pain de singe [French], affenbrotbaum [German], imbondeiro [Portuguese (Angola)], baobá [Portuguese (Brazil)] (USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program, 2008).