Geologist think that more than a 100 million years ago, India and Madagascar were joined at the hip. But, when the Gondwana continent split, it created two brothers from the same mother. Today, they share other roots as well. The baobab tree, son of the soil of Madagascar, was brought to our shores by Portuguese traders.

It's remarkable not just for its towering height (up to 98 ft), but girth (up to 36 ft) and age (give or take a millennium) as well. According to senior botanist Anil Rajbhar, who conducted a tree census for the BMC last year, there are more than 200 baobabs strewn across Mumbai, from Navy Nagar to Vasai Fort. In Andheri East alone, in the unkempt corner of Marol, there are 13 visible baobabs within a 2km radius. Zico Fernandes, 35, a tour guide with Cox & Kings, who started the Instagram account, Baobabs of Bombay, in 2017, took us on a baobab-spotting tour on his Aviator.