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Botanical Terms -Michel Adanson (1727–1806)
a French collector and botanist who served as a clerk on a commercial mission in Senegal and made numerous previously unidentified plant discoveries. He brought back a sizable collection of plants and seeds to France in the 1750s. Despite later discoveries that specimens of the baobab were more widely dispersed, he was the first European to describe the plant, which he had seen in West Africa. He calculated that the tree he observed was roughly 5000 years old; nevertheless, radiocarbon dating has verified that some specimens are 1000 years old, while less accurate techniques have calculated older ages for other specimens. In his honor, the baobab genus (*Adansonia) was named.
Adansonia is a genus of trees in the family *Bombacaceae, some species of which are pollinated by ants living inside of modified spines. The baobab (A. digitata) is well-known for its enormously enlarged trunk, which may grow to a height of 35 m and a circumference of 15 m. Some species swell, although not as much. Baobab offers food and medications for both humans and animals. There are nine species, which can be found in Madagascar, northwestern Australia, and the seasonal tropics of Africa.
a French collector and botanist who served as a clerk on a commercial mission in Senegal and made numerous previously unidentified plant discoveries. He brought back a sizable collection of plants and seeds to France in the 1750s. Despite later discoveries that specimens of the baobab were more widely dispersed, he was the first European to describe the plant, which he had seen in West Africa. He calculated that the tree he observed was roughly 5000 years old; nevertheless, radiocarbon dating has verified that some specimens are 1000 years old, while less accurate techniques have calculated older ages for other specimens. In his honor, the baobab genus (*Adansonia) was named.
Adansonia is a genus of trees in the family *Bombacaceae, some species of which are pollinated by ants living inside of modified spines. The baobab (A. digitata) is well-known for its enormously enlarged trunk, which may grow to a height of 35 m and a circumference of 15 m. Some species swell, although not as much. Baobab offers food and medications for both humans and animals. There are nine species, which can be found in Madagascar, northwestern Australia, and the seasonal tropics of Africa.
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