What are the Baobabs Amoureux?

Two baobabs twisted around each other

Avenue of the Baobabs Quiz: Madagascar's Grandidier Giants

This Avenue of the Baobabs quiz walks the red dirt road near Morondava where giant trees tower over rice fields at sunset. Play 10 interactive questions on Grandidier's baobab, trees hundreds of years old, the local name renala, the vanished forest around them, Madagascar's endemic baobab species, the twisted Baobabs Amoureux and how the avenue was protected.

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🎯 Daily Trivia Challenge • 🧠 10 Questions • ⏱️ 150 Seconds

Question 1 / 10 Time: 150s

Country
Which country is the Avenue of the Baobabs in?
Town
Which town is closest to the avenue?
Species
Which baobab species lines the road?
Height
How tall can these baobabs grow?
Age
Roughly how old are many of the trees?
Local
What do locals call the baobab?
Forest
What happened to the forest around them?
Endemic
How many baobab species are found only in Madagascar?
Lovers
What are the Baobabs Amoureux?
Protect
What status did the avenue gain in Madagascar?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: Which country is the Avenue of the Baobabs in?
Answer: Madagascar
It is on the west coast.
Q2: Which town is closest to the avenue?
Answer: Morondava
It sits on the Mozambique Channel.
Q3: Which baobab species lines the road?
Answer: Grandidier's baobab
It is named after a French naturalist.
Q4: How tall can these baobabs grow?
Answer: About 30 m
Their trunks are smooth and straight.
Q5: Roughly how old are many of the trees?
Answer: Hundreds of years
Some may be about 800 years old.
Q6: What do locals call the baobab?
Answer: Renala, mother of the forest
The name honors its size.
Q7: What happened to the forest around them?
Answer: It was cleared for farmland
Only the baobabs were left.
Q8: How many baobab species are found only in Madagascar?
Answer: Six
Eight species exist worldwide.
Q9: What are the Baobabs Amoureux?
Answer: Two baobabs twisted around each other
They are near the avenue.
Q10: What status did the avenue gain in Madagascar?
Answer: Protected natural monument
Protection began in 2007.

Giant Trees on a Red Dirt Road

The Avenue of the Baobabs is a short stretch of dirt road near Morondava in western Madagascar, lined by about two dozen Grandidier's baobabs. The trees rise about 30 m on straight smooth trunks with small crowns, and many are hundreds of years old.

The baobabs once stood in dense tropical forest, which was cleared over time for farms and rice fields. Local people value the trees, calling the baobab renala, mother of the forest. Madagascar has six of the world's eight baobab species found nowhere else, and Grandidier's baobab is the largest.

The avenue was given temporary protection in 2007 and later became a natural monument. Nearby, the Baobabs Amoureux are two trees twisted around each other. Sunset and sunrise draw crowds of photographers, while ox carts still use the road.

What This Quiz Teaches

Tree and travel fans will enjoy these questions.

Where the avenue is
Which baobab grows there
How old the trees are
What happened to the forest
How it is protected

Did You Know?

Baobab fruit pulp is rich in vitamin C.
Reflections fill the rice paddies.
Kirindy forest lies to the north.
Ox carts share the dirt road.
Bats help pollinate baobab flowers.