After a few years of successful care, the baobab tree delights its owner with fantastically beautiful flowers.
Flowers reveal age
After about 5 to 7 years of care, baobab trees in our region will delight you with their cute blossoms.
In their West African homeland, they flower for the first time between 8 and 10 years. South and East African species do not produce magnificent flowers until they are 16 years old at the earliest.
flower characteristics
The delicate white to cream-colored flowers smell pleasantly sweet. With a bit of luck, they will produce sweet fruit in late summer.
Particularities:
- star shaped
- several flowers in close proximity
- short flowering period
tips and tricks
After flowering is the ideal time for pruning.