Round 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 and hanging fruit said to resemble 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 that he rips it out and replants it upside down. A dirt road in the region of Menabe that runs between several of these “trees of life,” many of them up to (10[1])800 years old, (10[1])is known as their “Avenue.” For 10 points, six of the eight species of what large trees with distinctively wide trunks grow in Madagascar? ■END■

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