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Five Egyptian trees with fruit, including the tamarind, mulberry fig and baobab. Line engraving, c. 1676.

Baobab tree (Adansonia digitata L.) with swollen trunk. Lithograph after R. McCormick, c. 1884.

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Five Egyptian trees with fruit, including the tamarind, mulberry fig and baobab. Line engraving, c. 1676.

Baobab tree (Adansonia digitata L.) with swollen trunk. Lithograph after R. McCormick, c. 1884.