The Big Tree is a large baobab[1] of the species Adansonia digitata situated close to Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe.

[5] The Big Tree grows roughly 2 km from the Zambezi River, Victoria Falls, and the island where Livingstone made landfall in a mokoro dugout canoe and wrote his records.

[7] Unlike the animals rescued and saved by Operation Noah during the flooding, the trees could not be relocated, and many were bulldozed so they would not become underwater hazards.

Over previous years name carvers have left their mark on the tree, leading to the erection of a fence to protect it from vandals.

Some of them are; Kapok trees, with swollen trunks and also members of the family Malvaceae and the same order, are the baobab's "New World" equivalents.