Sausage Tree
Kigelia africana
| Height: | Up to 20m |
| Family: | Bignoniaceae |
| Flowers: |
The Sausage Tree is quite distinctive with its large "sausage-like"
fruits which hang down from the branches. These fruits can be up to a metre
long and 18 cms across. The fruit is poisonous when raw but is used in
herbal medicine as a cure for many different ailments when dried or cooked.
These photos were taken in the Selous National Park, Tanzania.
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