Baobab

Just for interest, my partner has just come home from visiting family in Zimbabwe, she brought me a seed of a Baobab tree. I cut the end off to be able to see the contents, which are edible, very bitter and made into a liqueur as well as a staple food, very rich in Vitamin A. The seed itself, a small black pip, is inside the [polystyrene looking and feeling] white rectangle held together with the fibres. The case is very hard [had to use a hacksaw] with a velvet like covering.



With an apple to show size

It's very strange, but makes for an interesting photograph. The white rectangles are quite bizarre

They work for me, no 1 being my 'pick'

Very odd looking and nice clear shots,I bet they hurt if they fall on your head.

Good macro, and the apple for scale. It almost looks like some weird undersea creature (or maybe that's just my imagination).

1 works the best for me, weird looking thing!!!

Yes. If Newton had been a Zimbabwean we would probably not have gravity..

Nice shots of a bizarre fruit!

Thank you for sharing and broadening our horizons. Fascinating.

tks guys.

It's like something off Star Trek. Weird.

No.1 for the photos

That is odd , looks like feta cheese inside! Which bit do you actually eat??

Interesting shots. Black ground works well

Natures contemporary art. Fascinating.

First one for me of an interesting looking fruit.
PS: If you have any spare of the black seeds I would like to try and grow a Baobab. They have them in Australia where I lived for a while. I think they called them the upside down tree as the branches looked like roots.

All very interesting.