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Image: Baobab - seeds from one fruit, Adansonia digitata

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Description: One opened mature fruit from the Adansonia digitata baobab, with all the whitish opaque pulp dissolved off and fibers removed, to show only the seeds. The seeds are brown, any white patches are residual undissolved fruit pulp. This one fruit had 155 seeds. Showing only one example to give a general idea as to the magnitude of baobab seed quantities per fruit, and their size as compared to the fruit they were in. Seeds from this fruit somewhat consistently measured 1.2 cm in length. This fruit measured 21 cm in length and 28 cm at the widest circumference.
Title: Baobab - seeds from one fruit, Adansonia digitata
Credit: Own work
Author: T.K. Naliaka
Usage Terms: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
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