Multi-coloured Baobab tree

I’ve probably identified the tree wrong, but this one was growing out of the Bankside Gallery.

3 thoughts on “Multi-coloured Baobab tree

  1. yeah that’s a baobab – they are known as the upside-down trees in east africa because they look like they’re waving their roots in the air. the trunks can get so big and hollow that jeliw musicians in mali used to be buried upright inside them when they died.

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