A detailed description of the plant was proposed around 1750 by Michel Adanson, a French botanist who spent several years in Senegal, and took samples to Paris. Adansonia digitata is the scientific name proposed by Carl Von LINNE and Bernard de Jussieu. It is a secular tree belonging to the Bombacaceae family, imposing by its size, it is the most massive of all known woody species, unlike other species of the genus Adansonia endemic to Madagascar or Australia (Adansonia grandidieri Baill., Adansonia madagascarensis Baill, Adansonia suarezensis H. Perrier and Adansonia Baill, etc.). It is mainly present in the sub-humid and semi.