The Baobab Prison Tree, Derby is a 1,500-year-old, large hollow Adansonia gregorii (Baobab) tree 6 kilometres south of Derby, Western Australia with a girth of 14.7 metres.[1] It had been reputed to have been used in the 1890s as a lockup for indigenous Australian prisoners on their way to Derby for sentencing, but there is no evidence that it was ever used to house prisoners.[2][3]
- ^ "The wisdom of trees". National Geographic. March 2017. Archived from the original on 16 February 2017.
- ^ "Derby Baobab prison tree a myth, say researchers". ABC News. 23 March 2017. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
- ^ Vincent Serventy, Nature Walkabout (A. H. and A. W. Reed, 1967)