bread tree

In some areas, sweet chestnut trees are called "the bread tree".

I foraged for bread sticks, picking them off a stale bread tree; they were better than nothing.

St. John's bread trees with their thick crowns and twisted limbs took the place of the grove of palms Raffia had described.

Other common names include boab, boaboa, tabaldi, bottle tree, upside-down tree, and monkey bread tree.

"Nothing grows in our yard but the bread tree," he mused, "and there are only two more loaves on that tree; and they're not ripe yet.

In the savannas the most characteristic trees are the monkey bread tree or baobab (Adanisonia digitata), doum palm (Hyphaene) and euphorbias.

Several species of Encephalartos are commonly referred to as bread palms, bread tree or Kaffir bread since a bread-like starchy food can be prepared from the centre of the stem.

Thunberg recorded around 1772 that the Hottentots removed the stem's pith at the crown and buried it wrapped in animal skin for about two months, after which they recovered it for kneading into bread, whence the vernacular name "broodboom" (i.e. bread tree).