The northern region’s signature tree is the baobab (adansonia digitata) which can live for hundreds of years. Indeed one of Limpopo’s spectacular specimens is thought to be as old as 6000 years – the baobab doesn’t produce annual growth rings, so estimates are made by carbon-dating. The stoutest living baobab tree is on a farm outside Hoedspruit although it recently split into two parts and is therefore not likely to live much longer. Its girth before the split was 47 metres and its diameter 15.9 metres. That’s the length of 5 Fiat Unos nose to tail!