Apinanleipäpuu – Adansonia digitata

Bark is smooth, variable in colour. Branches are stout near the trunk, young branches often tomentose. Leaves are alternate, simple (in young trees and first leaves of the season in old trees) or digitately compound, at the apex of branches, 5-7(-9)-foliolate, c. 20 cm in diameter. Stipules are early-falling. Petioles are up to 16 cm long. Leaflets are sessile or shortly stalked, 5-15 cm × 1.5-7 cm, elliptical, with acute apices. Flowers are 20 cm in diameter, solitary or paired, axillary, pendulous, bisexual. Pedicel is up to 90 cm long, tomentose. Calyx is 3-5-lobed, 5-9 cm × 3-7 cm, shortly tomentose outside, velvety pubescent inside. Petals are 5, overlapping, very broadly obovate, 10-12 cm long, white. Stamens are very numerous, united at base into a staminal tube. Ovary is superior, style exserted, ca. 1.5 cm beyond anthers, stigma 5-10-lobed. Fruit is a woody, indehiscent capsule, globose to ovoid or oblong-cylindrical, up to about 40 cm long, covered by velvety tomentum, filled with dry, mealy pulp, many-seeded. Seeds are kidney-shaped, c. 1.5 × 1 cm, smooth, dark brown to black, with thick seedcoat.