Packet 8: Tossup 12

One of these plants possesses a hollow base allegedly filled with the bones of imprisoned lepers from a 1950s outbreak. Along with peanut paste, the sweet Good Friday pudding ngalakh is made from the juice of this plant, which is regionally called bouye. White flowers pollinated by hawk moths (15[1]-5[1])and hanging fruit said to resemble (-5[1])dead rats characterize the sole species of this plant found in Western Australia. In a Giriama legend, the devil is so enraged that this plant of the genus (15[1])(*) Adansonia provides no shade (-5[1])that he rips (-5[1])it out and (10[1])replants it upside (-5[1])down. (10[5]-5[1])A dirt road in the region of Menabe (10[1])that runs between several (10[2])of these (10[2])“trees of life,” (10[3])many of them (10[3])up to (10[3])800 (10[2])years (-5[1])old, (10[1])is known (10[1])as their “Avenue.” (10[6])For 10 points, six (10[2])of the (-5[1])eight species of what large trees (10[2])with distinctively wide trunks grow in (-5[1])Madagascar? (10[1])■END■ (10[5]0[1])

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