angiosperm Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/angiosperm/ The low down on African affairs Tue, 12 Jun 2018 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 angiosperm Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/angiosperm/ 32 32 What is killing Africa’s iconic baobabs? https://jjcornish.com/2018/06/what-is-killing-africas-iconic-baobabs/ Tue, 12 Jun 2018 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2018/06/what-is-killing-africas-iconic-baobabs/ Scientists fear that Africa’s giant baobabs are a victim of global warming. They’re stying the unexplained deaths of these iconic trees that appear to be growing upside down with their roots heading for the sky ends intro Baobabs are the oldest angiosperms or flowering plants Alarm bells started ringing when the Zimbabwe tree named Panke, […]

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They’re stying the unexplained deaths of these iconic trees that appear to be growing upside down with their roots heading for the sky

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Baobabs are the oldest angiosperms or flowering plants

Alarm bells started ringing when the Zimbabwe tree named Panke, which was more than 2 400 year old, started dying eight years ago 

Scientists have been studying  baobabs in detail  since since 2005

Since then, nine of the 13 oldest baobabs and five of the six largest have died.

They see no indication of an epidemic such as that which killed Dutch elms in Europe 40 years ago.

They suspect global warming, but admit they will have to study this very carefully.

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