Bottle tree
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Bottle tree or bottle-tree may refer to:
- Adansonia species, the baobabs;
- Adansonia gregorii, the boab;
- Pachypodium lealii, (Apocynaceae), the bottle tree of Namibia and Angola;
- The genus Moringa, (Moringaceae), of the Madagascar spiny thickets and elsewhere;
- Brachychiton or Kurrajong species, (Malvaceae), of Australia;
- Cebia species, the floss silk tree or palo borracho of South America.
DID YOU KNOW? Bottle Trees are also a Mississippi favorite, not actually a bottle tree, but literally a tree covered in bottles to catch evil spirits before they could reach your home.