What Madagascar’s scenic Avenue of Baobabs lacks in quantity (comprising only about 25 trees total), it makes up for in quality, as the small grouping of Adansonia grandidieri is a striking reminder of the island country’s forest heritage. Lining a dirt road in western Madagascar, the oddly blobby baobabs can live to be thousands of years old and are known locally as renala, meaning “mother of the forest.” They reach up to 100 feet tall.