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花2（Spend 2） On a dry savanna in Africa, it grows a strange looking tree -- its name is Babu. Because monkeys and Arabia dog face baboons like to eat its fruit, so people call it monkey bread tree, the English name is baobab. Is a species of kapok baobab tree, but 20 meters high, and the diameter is up to 15 meters, often more than a dozen adults in hand to hold. Crown diameter can reach more than 50 meters. Because it looks like a big fat, so the local people call it a fat tree and tree like. The baobab tree looks very strange, there is an ancient legend: when Babu tree in Africa settle down, it does not listen to God arrangements, but choose a savanna, and infuriated the God, he plucked up from the tree in the inverted Babu wave on a strange trees down . To this day, it is still sparsely distributed on the African savanna, becoming a unique landscape there. The tropical steppe climate is hot, there are obvious wet and dry seasons, dry season rainfall rarely. In order to survive the dry season, the monkey tree desperately absorbs moisture and stores it in the trunk of the trunk during the rainy season. Its xylem is like a porous sponge that contains a lot of water and becomes an ideal source of water when it is dry. It has provided lifesaving water for many people traveling on the savanna, and rescued the dying travellers who are thirsty, so it is also called the tree of life. Baobab fruit oblong, gray white, 30 - 35 cm long, about 15 - 17 cm longitudinal section. Succulent pulp containing organic acids and resins and slightly sour in taste. Not only eaten raw, but also made cool drinks and condiments. In the flesh wrapped with many seeds, seed oil content of up to 15%, oil from yellow, fine edible oil. The seed can also be mixed with coarse cereals. During the rainy season, baobab trees produce palmately compound leaves consisting of 3 to 7 leaflets on their branches. The leaves are rich in vitamins and calcium and are a favorite vegetable for local residents. Youn