Show A queer tree the queerest of trees must be the baobab or monkey bread it grows to the height of forty feet but its girth is entirely out of pro por portion on to its height some trees being thirty hirv feet in diameter an old baobab in in africa is is then more like a a forest than a single tree their considers them as the oldest living organic monuments of our plant borne some trees arc are believed to be years old you can cut a g good aee sized room into the trunks ot tot the baobab with comfortable accommodations for thirty meg men and the tree lives on and flourishes it produces a it fruit about afoot a foot long which is edible As an example onslow of slow growth crowth in england a baobab at bew wew kew though more than eighty eight years ca old has only attained a mat height 0 of rs four and a half feet A kindred species to the african baobab grows in australia they have been measured being thirty feet high with a girth of eighty biye foet |