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

Baobab tree is also known as monkey bread and Judas's bag

The fruit pulp of the baobab is eaten, used as a coagulant and as a local remedy against fever and dysentery. The seeds are eaten and are the source of an oil used in soap manufacture. The bark is used for cloth, the inner bark for rope and the hollow trunk as a shelter

[London] : [publisher not identified], [1884] (Vincent Brooks, Day & Son)

1 print : lithograph

The Baobab Tree of Porta Praya, St. Jago, Cape de Verde Islands. The trunk 361/2 feet in circumference. R. McCormick, R.N., del. The lettering "R M'C 1832-39" appears on the trunk of the tree

Wellcome Collection 18607i