Crossword-Solution: BAOBABS 7 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Sixty to the right, sixty to the left, too close together for their size, they grow thick like a forest of baobabs that wanted space: they induce a feeling of oppression without possible deliverance, of massive and mournful eternity.

The old town was bathed in brilliant sunshine and reflected itself lazily on the motionless sea; its flat roofs and dazzlingly white walls peeped out dreamily between waving palms and lofty cocoanuts, huge baobabs and spreading mango trees; and the darker background of well-wooded hills and slopes on the mainland formed a very effective setting to a beautiful and, to me, unexpected picture.

The baobabs were also particularly conspicuous on this scene, no other kind of tree being visible in the cultivated parts.

Then there were trees we passed among--baobabs, whose youngest tendrils swung to and fro in the evening breeze like snakes head-downward.

The sightliest part is the vegetation, glorious ceibas (bombax) used for dug-outs; baobabs, tamarinds which supply cooling fruit and distilled waters; limes and bitter oranges.