Africa's baobab trees can live for more than 1,000 years, but the oldest are dying
by Amina Khan, Los Angeles Times
Jun 12, 2018
2 minutes
The oldest and biggest angiosperm trees in the world, the African baobabs, are dying or already dead, an international team of scientists has found.
The scientists said the spate of deaths, described in the journal Nature Plants, might be the result of a changing climate but that research needs to be done to determine that.
The baobab known as
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