The baobab in Nísia Floresta's central plaza carries three origin stories. A plaque says a local man, Manoel Júnior, planted it in 1877. Tradition says it grew from seeds an enslaved African carried from home. And the town will tell you Saint-Exupéry saw it from the air and put it in The Little Prince. The town has protected it by law since 1970 and named it municipal environmental heritage in 2007.
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Baobá de Nísia Floresta
Baobab (Adansonia digitata) · about 150 years · Centro, Nísia Floresta, Rio Grande do Norte
Nísia Floresta will tell you that Antoine de Saint-Exupéry saw this baobab from the air on one of his flights across the Atlantic, and that it ended up in The Little Prince, the book whose tiny planet is overrun by baobabs. The plaque standing beside the tree tells a plainer story: it was planted in 1877 by a local man named Manoel Júnior.
Those two accounts do not sit easily together, and there is a third. A widely repeated tradition holds that the tree grew from seeds an enslaved African carried from home. The plaque, quoted on the municipality's own page, is the only one of the three with a name and a year attached, which makes the tree about 150 years old: young, for a species that can live for well over a thousand. The other stories cannot be proven, and nobody has ruled them out either.
What is not in doubt is how seriously the town takes it. The baobab has been protected under Brazil's 1965 forest code and a municipal law of 1970, and in 2007 the council went further twice over: one law declared the ground around it of scenic interest, a second named the tree itself Environmental Heritage of the Municipality.
It stands in the central plaza in front of the church, a short walk from the bus terminal and the old railway station, on open public ground. Nobody has published its girth. If you visit with a tape measure, we would like to know.
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