Baubab Tree - WA Australia outback
This is an original artistic Photograph - Baobab tree- Taken in outback Western Australia.
Unique landscape Photo from the Australian Outback captures the beauty of nature.
The image is professionally printed on quality photographic paper 11x14" (28x35cm) ready for you to frame, hang or display as you wish
additional print sizes are available upon request
Boabs are fat-trunked trees that are native only to Madagascar and North-Western Australia. They have been known to attain girths of almost 30m, with a diameter of about 9-10m. It is thought that boabs live up to 2,000 - 6,000 years.
Australian Boabs
In the North Australian 'Wet Season', the boab has a dense coverage of bright green leaves. In the 'Dry' season (winter) the Boab drops all its leaves, and looks a like a tree that has been planted with its roots in the air.
Australian Aboriginal legends reflect this: The Boab was once a graceful, proud tree that delighted in boasting about its beauty to the other not-so-graceful plants that inhabited the same area. They complained, and God made it so that the seeds of the boab sprouted upside down - so the roots grew upwards, and the branches down into the earth.
