The Baobab Christmas Tree in Nelson Mandela Square
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J Pierneef was a South African landscape artist, generally considered to be one of the best of the old South African masters. According to this website, Pierneef’s painting, The Baobab Tree (painted around1934) holds the record for most expensive South African painting sold at Bonhams in 2008 for R 11.8 million! Apparently the buyer, says a Mail & Guardian archive article from 2008, was an unidentified South African […]
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February is a wonderful time to see growing baobab fruit. They emerge from their showy white flowers in December and take six months to grow into our superfruit. In February they are still growing and the fruit are soft and green. The inside of the fruit is wet and pulpy, providing an ideal environment for […]
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The African Baobab (Adansonia digitata) is a truly trans-continental species. It is found right across Africa, from West Africa through to East Africa and down to Southern Africa. They have an unusual life-history in that they are physically larger and live longer than most flowering plants on earth. Pollinators more vulnerable than Baobabs Although some […]
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