Baobab Crown Volume 7 A massive pond cypress

A massive pond cypress

Learning to forage amongst the grasses and wildflowers is just one of many life lessons to be learned in the shadow of experience

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Mingus Mountain is the crown of the Black Hills in north-central Arizona

Baobab Crown Volume 7 A massive pond cypressA stately equatorial Baobab tree rises above the forests of southern Tanzania, the outline of its leafless crown outlined by a the glow of a setting sun. Baobabs live for hundreds of years, some of them here in Africa reputedly even surviving for millenniums.