At 750 years old one could be forgiven for having a few ailments but a recent health check of King's Park's mighty boab tree Gija Jumulu has revealed the popular tourist attraction is in perfect ...

Dietitians in WA's Kimberley are hoping the leaves of the boab tree will become a staple part of the Australian diet. Although the boab tree has been a Kimberley icon for years, scientists only ...

Sign up to the Beating Around the Bush newsletter here, and suggest a plant we should cover at batb@theconversation.edu.au. When you are in the northern part of ...

Let’s begin with a small attempt to understand one of Nature’s marvels. Looking like a misfit, the boab tree, also known as bottle tree or upside-down tree due to its freaky swollen trunk, is a ...

Researchers are working with a group of First Nations Australians in a race against time, and some of the roughest terrain on Earth, to document ancient art in the bark of Australia's boab trees.

We investigate the origins of Western Australia’s iconic boab tree, whose only living relatives survive far away in Africa. Australia isn’t known for its deciduous trees. Across vast swathes of forest ...

Carvings on boab trees in northern Australia's Tanami Desert support stories told by elders about how their land came to be, according to a team of Indigenous people and archaeologists. The carvings ...

The "enormously significant" cultural artefacts were living sites and also document the songlines of the region. But they are destined to disappear. The carvings have been compared to the more famous ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sue O'Connor, Author provided Australia’s Tanami desert is one of the most isolated and arid places on Earth. It’s a hard place to ...

For all this, the dominant character here is the Kimberley itself. This old country that drifted in and welded on to the continent. And if we look to see that in just one face, surely it is in that of ...

Carvings in boab trees are as significant as rock art for Indigenous Australians. Now, there is a race against time to document the ancient art in the bark of boabs before the remarkable heritage ...