One of the African trees of the boabab inside the school complex in Aramghar, Hyderabad. | Photo Credit: Serish Nanisetti
The Baabab African tree is growing abiotic stress around the world. The contribution in the “Frontiers in Forests and Global Change” noted how: “Increased disorders predicted from increased climate variability, hot drought and landfalling tropical cyclones increase the risk of mortality to” African favorite tree “. One of them found that just outside the PVNR highway collapsed and revealed the inner hollow suitcase. While the tree survived, the surrounding area interferes with the construction of debris that is thrown away to block the path for worshipers in reaching a tree near the ancient temple of Ananta Padmanabhaswama.
“The loss of the habitat is one form of climatic stress that affects Baobab trees in Africa. But in India it is not a factor. Trees usually occur in western ghats, peninsula India and Central India, where it is for a short time.”
However, a natural group from the city now says that in Hyderabad and its surroundings they have a number of 37 boababs. The number includes a group of seven trees in the Aramghar region, two of which inside Jamia Islamia Darul Uloom and three inside the Zilla Parisad in Aramghar with one of them with a perimeter of approximately 45 feet.
“Baobaby makes them so much for them that it is a pleasure to find that Hyderabad is so home. Amazing bottles, massive size, innumerable uses and stories about baobabs that made them exotic curiosities of the plant world. Naya Qila in the Golcond Fortress so far.
In Hyderabad, several mapping efforts have been made for exotic and sometimes Irranged trees that landed in India due to pre -modern global trade. “The genealogy of trees is equally fascinating, and how they came to certain areas in India, along with Arab traders first and later with slaves brought by colonizers such as Dutch, Portuguese and British,” says Kobita Das.
An earlier study remarked how the African boabab inside Naya Qila is the largest outside Africa with the oldest part of the tree estimated to be 484 ± 50 years using radio carbon dating. The perimeter of the tree was measured to 25.48 meters or about 83.5 feet.
Published – 28th July 2025 20:59
