Boabab lemonade - Adansonia digitata ( edit )

Botany
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malvales
Family: Malvaceae
Sub-family: Bombacoideae
(subfam & crops)
Species: Adansonia digitata
Common name: Boabab lemonade

Vertical photograph ( אד )

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Kaloleni, Coast Kenya - May 2016 (more photos)

Origin
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East Africa
(other crops from this region )

Uses

Main use:
fruit
Harvest method:
ground gathering
Shelf life:
long shelf life
Yield first season:
20 fruits/tree/year
Yield top season:
65 fruits/tree/year
Parameter Concerning part Quality Crop's name Proportion Top-50
Edibility
  • fruit
  • seed/nut
  • shoot
super food
Medicinal
fresh leaf
medium
 ascorbic acid
0.50%
0.60%
 medicals
Lipids wood
(steam distillation
)
medium
boabab seed oil
14%
15%
 liphids
Apiculture:
very good
 honey
Fruit:
good
 fruits
Nut:
low
 nuts
Fodder:
inapplicable
 fodder
Wood stem / wood
good
Boabab wood
 310ρ 330ρ timber
Fuel: stem / wood -0.75 credits 4,550 kcal/kg fuelwood
Minor uses:








  • fruit
  • fuel
  • fodder
  • apiculture
  • timber
  • poison/herbicide
  • gum/resin
  • ornamental

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Plant Details
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Ein Gedi, Israel - 15 August 2016 (more photos)

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Crown
Parameter Value Unit Top-50
Height:
25
 m tallest
Crown width:
10
 m widest
Planting distance:
600
 cm
Row distance:
600
 cm
Growing speed:
slow
 fastest
Shade tolerance:
full sun
 umbra

Roots
Parameter Value Top-50
RootSystem:
shallow
 hexagon
MycorRhiza:
endo-mycorrhizae
 AM-plants
Symbiotic fungi:
Glomus intraradices
 M-fungi
N-fixing:
not able to
 N-plants
Symbiotic bacteria:
- No bacteria -
 N-bact.

Crop Timing
Parameter Value Unit Top-50
First flowering: 16 - 23 Years latest
Soonest commercial removal:
200
 Years fastest
Lifespan:
1,000
 Years oldest
InterCropModel(ICM):

Regeneration
Parameter Value Top-50
Flower morphology: dioecious
 specials
Pollinators:
bees
 specials
Allelopathy: a bit allelopathic resists
Abscission: decidious in dry season specials
Invasiveness: not invasive weeds
Thorns: no thorns fencers

Environment
Parameter min optimal max Unit Top-50
Altitude: 5m 752.5 m 1,500m meters above sea-level highest
Temperature: 1°C 19°C 28°C Celcius hardiest
Rainfall: 250 mm 625 mm 1,000 mm mm/year (litres/m2) dryest
Soil-pH: 5.0 6.5 pH dryest
Soil-texture:
sand
Climate:
tropical

Seeds
Parameter Value Unit
Seed storage:
orthodox
Seed viability:
84
 months
Seed weight:
13,000
47,000
 seeds/kg

Tolerances
Parameter Value Top-50
Salt tolerance:
a bit tolerant
 tolerants
Wind tolerance:
tolerant
 tolerants
Fire tolerance:
tolerant
 tolerants

Pests and Diseases
Pests:
  • Diparopsis castanea
  • Earias biplaga
  • Helicoverpa armigera
  • Dysdercus fasciatus
  • Dysdercus intermedius
  • Dysdercus nigrofasciatus
  • Dysdercus suberstitious
  • Oxycarenus albipennis
  • Odontopus exsanguinis
  • Odontopus sexpunctatus
  • Podagrica malvae
  • Aneleptes trifasciata/
  • unknown label

 Diseases:
Black mould

Propagation instruction
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Thika, KE - 10 April 2017(more photos) Mamelodi, South Africa - 05 October 2015
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Additional Photos
Stem photo: Crop's photo:
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