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Big Tree at Victoria Falls
Species
Adansonia digitata
Location
Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
The Big Tree is a large baobab[1] of the species Adansonia digitata situated close to Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe. It is unusually large for a baobab,[2] measuring 22.40 meters (~73 ft) in girth and 24 meters (~79 ft) tall.[3]
The explorer and missionary David Livingstone became the first European to observe Victoria Falls in 1854,[4] naming the falls after Queen Victoria. While the Big Tree is sometimes referred to as Livingstone's Tree,[3] Livingstone carved his name into a smaller baobab tree on Garden Island above the precipice of the waterfall.[5]
The Big Tree grows roughly 2 km from the Zambezi River, Victoria Falls, and the island where Livingstone made landfall in a mokoro dugout canoe and wrote his records. This tree is possibly the oldest and biggest baobab in the world.[6] Some similar trees were lost by the flooding further downstream that occurred when Kariba Dam was finished in 1956.[7] Unlike the animals rescued and saved by Operation Noah during the flooding, the trees could not be relocated, and many were bulldozed so they would not become underwater hazards.
It is estimated that The Big Tree may be about 2,000 years old based on girth and growth ring data collected from other trees. That being said, it is thought to be much younger and may be made up of three separate tree trunks (or trees) due to its deep incisions.[6]
^Baum, David A. (1995). "A Systematic Revision of Adansonia (Bombacaceae)". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 82 (3): 440–471. doi:10.2307/2399893. ISSN 0026-6493. JSTOR 2399893.
^ ab"David Livingstone's 'curse' on the Big Tree | Celebrating Being Zimbabwean". Retrieved 2022-09-26.
^"David Livingstone Reaches the Victoria Falls | History Today". www.historytoday.com. Retrieved 2022-09-26.
^"The Big Tree Victoria Falls". victoriafallstraveller.com. 2022-08-09. Retrieved 2022-09-26.
^ abMoens, Jonathan (2021-11-26). "How Old Is Zimbabwe's Famed 'Big Tree'?". Atlas Obscura. Retrieved 2022-09-26.
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