[1] It has been documented in only 10 locations, including the Ankarana, Ampasindava, Loky Manambato and Montagne d'Ambre protected areas.

With an estimated population of fewer than 250 mature individuals and ongoing habitat decline due to fire and cutting for charcoal and timber or clearing for mining, this species has been assessed by IUCN as Critically Endangered.

Baobab trees have two types of shoots – long, green vegetative ones, and stout, woody reproductive ones.

[2] The flower is made up of an outer 5-lobed calyx, and an inner ring of petals set around a fused tube of stamens.

A densely hairy ovary is enclosed in the staminal tube with a long style tipped with a red or pink stigma emerging from the filaments.

[2] Flowers of Perrier's baobab are pollinated primarily by long-tongued hawkmoths (Coelonia solani and Xanthopan morganii).

They have a tough 8–9 mm thick outer wall and hold kidney-shaped seeds in a dry, pulpy matrix.

[1] The specific Latin epithet of perrieri refers to the French botanist Joseph Marie Henry Alfred Perrier de la Bâthie (1873–1958), who studied plants in Madagascar.