Elegy for the St. John Baobab Tree

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Elegy for the St. John Baobab Tree

Oh, our dear Baobab, how can you truly be gone? You stood tall on the ridge for so many years and then survived the two terrible hurricanes in 2017, only to be hollowed out and brought down by a throng of larvae from invasive borer beetles.

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