Follow the epic journey of these 2 x large Salvage Harvested Baobab / Boab tree from being saved from land clearing operation to their new home half way around the world. From Kununurra to Doha in Qatar - a re-location distance of approx 15,000km. This operation is 100% legal and we have all relevant Licences and Permits from Salvage Harvest to Export meeting all country of destination Import Requirements. Trees can be sent either bare rooted or with soil - depending on Country of imports requirements. Australian Boab tree (Adansonia gregorii) is idea for semi desert conditions to equatorial climates and are drought hardy semi succulents. These water storing trees come from our harsh dry sub tropical area of Western Australia. The waxy feeling skin/bark of the Boab will adapt to extremely hot sunlight conditions in the dry season when it may shed all of its leaves (depending on whether the tree is growing in dry or moist situations). The extreme growing conditions experienced by these amazing Boab trees :- ** they grow in a wide range of soils from deep sandy to clay soils, in rocky habitats in valleys and rocky hills to 1500m+ ** in and around freshwater swamps, streams and rivers sometimes with their root systems being submersed in deep water for months on end without any ill effect ** on the edge of brackish water bodies and salt marshes and tidal salt flats just above high tide mark - in some cases receiving salt water inundation during tropical storms and extra high king tides and Cyclones ** they also grow in soils with salt contends higher than most plants can withstand

1. These are Australian Baobab trees (Adansonia gregorii).
Baobab tree Number 64 above.
Excavating the tree from my Salvage Harvest area in the East Kimberley Region in the North of Western Australia, 3,500km North of Perth
Western Australia. The soils here in habitat are extremely dry as there is no rain for periods of 6 to 7 months of the year.

2. Baobab tree number 52 above
They are harvested in the cooler dry season when the trees are in Dormancy. In Cultivation they can retain their leaves throughout the
year.
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3. Baobab tree Number 64 above.
See the beautiful root structure.
Being Succulents and Xerophytic, the roots system does not require to be kept moist or wet after excavation. During shipping the trees,
the rootball can be left to dry out completely or 100% bare-rooted for Export.
I have had trees in this state for almost 2 years without determent to the survivability of the trees. They re-establish in a very
short time after planting

5.
Baobab tree Number 52 above.

6. Baobab tree Number 64 above.

8. Baobab trees loaded and ready to begin their epic 3,500km journey from Kununurra in the East Kimberley Region heading South to Perth
Western Australia.

9. Baobab tree Number's 52 and 64 above. Arrived in Perth Western Australia after 3,500km road trip.

10. Baobab trees have arrived in Perth trucking yards. Trees are now receiving chemical Cover Spray and Treatment of soil in
Rootball to meet the Requirements of the importing country.

12.
Baobab tree's root balls treated with chemical to requirements of importing country. Note the beautiful root balls, the roots are very
compact, the trees re-enstate in a short time. These trees do not fail!

13. 24th September 2013. Arrival at WORLD-LINK International's Perth yard for loading into 40ft O/T Sea Container.

15. Loading the two trees into 1 x 40ft O/T Container, crown to crown with branches inter-meshed.

16. Loading the two trees into 1 x 40ft O/T Container, crown to crown with branches inter-meshed.

17. We removed the bar across the opening of the container so that the tree could be swung into the container so that we could carefully intertwine
the branches of the 2 x Baobab trees as the tree moved in.

18. The 2 trees have their branches interwoven so that 2 trees could fit within the one 40ft O/T Sea container.

19. Packed and Departing from Fremantle Port, Perth, Western Australia.

20. October 2013. Tree has arrived! Tree Number 64 above.
Stored on the ground waiting to be planted in Aspire park, Doha, Qatar. It rained for several days on my arrival, most unexpected!

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The trees were forming leaves in the container on the journey from Australia to Qatar. And it rained!

24. Joe Perner of Cycad International. Adrian Black of Aspire Park. Chel Hauschildt of Al Nakheel Qatar.

29. On the move to the planting site.

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These trees are probably the most portable trees, they just keep growing in the container.
Baobab trees are the Worlds Largest Succulents.

36.
Late October 2013. Josef Perner, Managing Director of Cycad International.

37. 31st January 2014. 2 months since planting. Adrian Black, Aspire Park. Notice the new leaf growth, a white flower
on the top Right side.

39. 1 November 2013. This tree No 52 was planted several weeks after tree 64.
21st November 2013.

41. 30th January 2014. Almost 2 months since planting. Adrian Black of Aspire Park.
Yes! it is leaning! we rectified this soon after the photo was taken.
10 September 2014. 10 months after planting. Tree Number 52.

42. 10 September 2014. 11 months after planting. Tree Number 64.

43. 23rd January 2015. 15 months after planting. Tree 64. Autumn coloration, beginning of cool season trees may go
dormant when the temperature drips to minimum.

44. 23rd January 2015. 15 months after planting. Tree 64. Autumn coloration, beginning of cool season trees may go
dormant when the temperature drips to minimum.

45. 4th April 2015. 17 + months after planting. This tree has barely defoliated during the cold season, possibly good water
supply. Tree 64.

46. 4th April 2015. 16+ months after planting. This tree totally Defoliated during during Dormant phase in the cold weather, it will
bud and push leaves when the hot weather begins. Notice the new branches that have grown since planting. Tree Number 52.

47. 27th April 2015. 18 months after planting. Tree Number 64. Tree has gone Dormant now that the cold weather has set
in, it will again flush new leaves and flowers when the weather warms up. See the strong re-generation of branches.

48. 7 April 2015. 17 months after planting Tree has defoliated now that the cold weather has set in, it will again flush new leaves and
flowers when the weather warms up. See the strong re-generation of branches. Tree Number 52.

49. The Baobab trees flowering in the hot season.
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