Genetics and Biogeography of the Australian Baobab.
 Mail this form to Prof. Jack Pettigrew, Queensland Brain Institute, UQ 4072,   or fax it to (07) 3365 4522, or email using electronic version at www.uq.edu.au/nuq/jack/boab.html

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It is known that individual boabs show a lot of variation in the time they put out leaf and flowers each year. It is possible that time of leaf/flower might have a genetic basis that reflects different strains of boab. This project is looking at the distribution of different genetic strains of boab across the Kimberley, even in very inaccessible locations. If a link can be shown between different genetic strains and flowering/leaf times in settled places where you can observe the boab regularly, then if will be possible to tell such times for isolated and inaccessible boabs by collecting their DNA.

You could assist in this project if you can observe a boab near you. If you can provide observations on more than one boab, please use a separate sheet like this for each one.

Your Name and Address and Contact Number:

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1. Location of the Boab Tree That You Studied:
 GPS coordinates, street address or exact location of the tree under observation  
 
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Make a drawing if there is more
than one boab tree that could be confused.



Since we will be coming back to collect DNA from this very tree, try to be sufficiently precise for the tree to be identified if you are not around. If this is not possible, et us know and we will arrange for you to take us to the tree.



2. Describe any distinctive features of this boab.



3. Date when leaves first appeared on this boab toward the end of the Dry Season. ...........

4. Date when flowers first appeared on this boab toward the end of the Dry Season.’Ķ’Ķ..

5. If you remember any details for this particular boab from past years, please write down the following’Ķ’Ķ..
    a. Approximate date when leaves first appeared after the DrySeason’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ..
    b. Approximate date when flowers first appeared after the Dry Season ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ’Ķ..