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{{Taxobox

| color = lightgreen
| name = Boab
| status = 

secure
| image = Derby boab, Western Australia.jpg
| image_width = 240px
| image_caption = ''Adansonia gregorii'', the Boab
| regnum = [[Plantae]]
| divisio = [[Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Malvales]]
| familia = [[Malvaceae]]
| genus = ''[[Baobab|Adansonia]]''
| species = '''''A. gregorii'''''
| binomial = ''Adansonia gregorii''
| binomial_authority = [[Ferdinand von Mueller|F.Muell.]]
}}

[[Image: Boab, Timber Creek, NT - Melissa Jamcotchian.JPG|left|thumb| A boab tree in Timber Creek, Northern Territory]]

'''''Adansonia gregorii''''', commonly known as '''boab''', is a [[tree]] in the [[family (biology)|family]] [[Malvaceae]].  As with other [[baobab]]s, it is easily recognised by the swollen base of its trunk, which gives the tree a bottle-like appearance.  Endemic to [[Australia]], boab occurs in the [[Kimberley region of Western Australia|Kimberley]] region of [[Western Australia]], and east into the [[Northern Territory]].  It is the only baobab to occur in Australia, the others being native to [[Madagascar]] (six species) and [[Africa]] (one species).