Baobab (Adansonia digitata L.): A Review on a multipurpose tree with promising future in the Sudan

Gartenbauwissenschaft

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 155-160

  Gebauer, Jens ^a   El Siddig, K ^a   Ebert, Georg ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADANSONIA; ADANSONIA DIGITATA; MALVACEAE;

EID: 0036629613     PISSN: 0016478X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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