Botanists have found a stand of rare trees in Tanzania’s Zanzibar archipelago not known to grow wild anywhere else in Africa.

The global market for baobab products has spiked, turning rural African areas with an abundance of the trees into source markets. The trees, known for surviving even under severe conditions like ...

The African baobab (Adansonia digitata ... and one to northern and western Australia. Baobabs are unique trees. They are among the world’s longest-living trees, with some being over 2,000 ...