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Adansonia gregorii F.Muell.

Australian baobab; Baobab; Baobab bottletree; Baobab-tree

Malvaceae · Northern Territory, Western Australia

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Habitat figures
Cold floor (1 night in 100)
10.8°C
Record low 7.1 °C in 44 years, at a typical spot in the range NASA POWER
Warmest month, mean daily high
38°C
Nov at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
887mm
7 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
32–45DLI
Lowest to highest month (DLI) CHELSA
The year in your months, northern hemisphere
  1. Jan
  2. Feb
  3. Mar
  4. Apr
  5. May
  6. Jun
  7. Jul
  8. Aug
  9. Sep
  10. Oct
  11. Nov
  12. Dec
Wet summers: the rain comes June to September (December to March at the habitat), read as a summer growing season. rain rule, CHELSA
Northern hemisphere unless you set your site. The chart is in the habitat's months.

Summary

Adansonia gregorii, commonly known as the boab and also known by a number of other names, is a tree in the family Malvaceae, endemic to the northern regions of Western Australia and the Northern Territory of Australia.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Adansonia gregorii", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Adansonia

Adansonia is a genus of medium-to-large deciduous trees known as baobabs or boababs. The eight species of Adansonia are native to Africa, Australia, and Madagascar but have also been introduced to other regions of the world, including Barbados, where several of the baobabs there are suspected to have originated from Africa. Other baobabs have been introduced to Asia. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Adansonia", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Seasons

The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the median year's rain (753 mm of 889 mm) falls in December to March, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 29.6 °C against a yearly mean of 27.9 °C). Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere; shifted six months for a northern-hemisphere collection: June to September.

Rain

889 mm in the median year at the habitat, 753 mm of it December to March. Wettest month January at 226 mm, driest month August at 0 mm; 3 months under 5 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 726 mm to 1,185 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 887 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 889 mm here is the median year's, the twelve monthly medians added, which the rain rule reads. Habitat calendar, southern hemisphere; median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA.

Light

Open sky over the habitat: 32 to 45 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 30, the highest 90th-percentile month 48).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is 10.8 °C, the absolute minimum 7.1 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 42.6 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 16.4 °C in July (across the grid cells of the range 14.0 °C to 18.1 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 37.5 °C in November (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: 10.8 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER).

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 42 to 62% across the year (monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Seasons. Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the grid cells of the range: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve moves 4 °C or more and the habitat lies 10° or more from the equator. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain. CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the grid cells of the range. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light. CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Temperature. NASA POWER daily minima and maxima over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, lapse-corrected -49 m to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range. The cold floor is the 1st-percentile night named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity. CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the grid cells of the range.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat months, southern hemisphere

Habitat climate of Adansonia gregorii through the yearWarmest month November, mean daily high 38 °C; coldest month July, mean nightly low 16.4 °C; 889 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added). Medians across the range, from CHELSA; the extremes at the edge from NASA POWER. Habitat months, southern hemisphere.0°10°20°30°40°50°42.6° 99th-percentile day, NASA POWER7.1° lowest night in 44 years, NASA POWER°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400mm rainDLI 32–45RH 42–62%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 331 habitat cells, CHELSA cold quarter: the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low extremes over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, from NASA POWER, marked at the edge, in no month DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C34 / 31–3633 / 31–3434 / 31–3534 / 32–3632 / 30–3329 / 28–3029 / 27–3032 / 29–3335 / 31–3637 / 32–3838 / 32–3936 / 32–37
Night °C26 / 24–2725 / 24–2725 / 23–2623 / 21–2520 / 18–2217 / 15–1916 / 14–1818 / 16–2022 / 20–2324 / 23–2626 / 24–2726 / 25–27
Rain mm226 / 188–312220 / 184–292142 / 110–19427 / 20–497 / 5–165 / 3–102 / 1–60 / 0–13 / 1–825 / 7–3767 / 23–102165 / 103–210
DLI40 / 38–4338 / 36–4038 / 38–3938 / 37–3835 / 33–3532 / 30–3334 / 32–3438 / 37–3942 / 42–4345 / 44–4745 / 45–4841 / 40–45
RH %60 / 56–6462 / 58–6557 / 53–6249 / 46–5545 / 43–5244 / 42–4942 / 40–4942 / 39–5245 / 41–5748 / 44–5852 / 47–5957 / 52–62
How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 331 grid cells holding the 590 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. A dash is a month one or more of those cells has no figure for in the grid (a variable CHELSA does not carry there), so no median is taken rather than one over fewer cells. Extremes and elevation were read at a typical spot in the range, cell 2114:6200 (-15.725, 130.025). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 7.1 °C, 1st-percentile night 10.8 °C, 99th-percentile day 42.6 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Across the range: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 331 distinct grid cells holding 590 of the 590 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 2114:6200 (its coldest month's mean nightly low nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -15.50_130.000, lapse-corrected -49 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 24 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across the cells of the in-range records placed well enough to read one, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeNorthern Territory, Western Australia · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker-15.751, 129.149 · in the densest population, 399 records (57% of those in range)
Kew's description“tree” · “seasonally dry tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 702 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 590 of them placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 442 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 47 km away. 31 records outside the WCVP native range not used. 112 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 702 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Stella Fish, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Alan Bell, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Genevieve Early, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) Martin Rady, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2).

Similar habitat climate The 6 nearest by mean daily high, mean nightly low and rain, month by month. How.

Drosera ordensis Drosera ordensis Droseraceae Photo: CC BY, Hugo InnesAcacia dunnii Acacia dunnii Elephant's-ear wattle Photo: CC BY, Michael HainsDrosera hartmeyerorum Drosera hartmeyerorum Droseraceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Michael SomervilleByblis filifolia Byblis filifolia Byblidaceae Photo: CC BY, Genevieve EarlyEucalyptus pantoleuca Eucalyptus pantoleuca Round-leaved Gum Photo: CC BY, Ian McMasterFicus platypoda Ficus platypoda Rock fig Photo: CC BY, Ian McMaster

Other Adansonia 7 in the reference

Adansonia digitata Adansonia digitata Baobab Photo: CC BY, Robert TaylorAdansonia fony Adansonia fony Malvaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, HeinonleinAdansonia grandidieri Adansonia grandidieri Grandidier's baobab Photo: CC0, author not statedAdansonia madagascariensis Adansonia madagascariensis Madagascar Baobab Photo: CC BY, jeanjacquesgodonAdansonia perrieri Adansonia perrieri Perrier's baobab Photo: CC BY, voyage-madagascar.org from…Adansonia suarezensis Adansonia suarezensis Suarez baobab Photo: CC BY, amantedarmaninAdansonia za Adansonia za Za baobab Photo: CC BY, Rui Ribeiro

Names & registers

Also known as Adansonia gibbosa; Adansonia gregorii f. globosa; Adansonia gregorii f. typica; Adansonia rupestris; Adansonia stanburyana and 2 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Malvaceae
Described by
F.Muell.
Native to
Northern Territory, Western Australia
Wild records
702 in range · 442 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 792 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (758 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 31 at a herbarium, 3 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate answeredasked 2026-10-21
Daily extremes (NASA POWER) climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-21NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -15.50_130.000, lapse-corrected -49 m at 6.5 °C/km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-21
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 22 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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