Baobab fruit season

Written by on March 7, 2014. Posted in BAOBAB TREES

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 the seeds to grow and mature.  I usually do annual fruit monitoring at this time so that I can catch them on the tree, counting the number of small, medium and large fruit on each of 40 trees that I visit each year .By May they start to dry out and drop off the trees.  This is my 8th year of monitoring the same trees every year.  Must be a record!

 

 

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