The Australian Boab Adansonia gregorii is indigenous to the Kimberley region. The boab is a large spreading tree up to 15m high with branches that radiate from the top of the swollen barrel like trunk that can be up to 20 metres in circumference The tree has very smooth grey-brown bark and compound leaves that comprise of 5-9 leaflets that are elongated with a pointed tip.

Flowering occurs anytime from October through to December with fruit set from January to April. It has large fragrant white flowers that start to bloom when the wet season is on its way.

The fruit of the Boab are small to large woody capsules that are brownish with a fine hair layer and contain many kidney-shaped seeds embedded in white pith like substance.

Local aboriginal people use Boab nuts as decorative ornaments by scratching pictorial scenes into the nut's surface. Traditionally aboriginal people have used various parts of the tree for food, medicine, water supply, fibre, glue and shelter.

Early European settlers to the region used the boab as shelter, stock food in times of drought and as 'prison' trees.