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Baobab Trees
Photo: Baobab trees on savannah at sunset
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Young baobab trees stand silhouetted in the sunset on the Bandiagara Escarpment in Mali. Some baobab species can live over 1,000 years and can be enormous, topping 82 feet (25 meters) in height and 40 feet (12 meters) in diameter.
Photograph by Bobby Model

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