Trees & Plants

Sausage tree

Kunahagaali

Kigelia africana (Lam.) Benth.

Planted in office premises and homesteads as an ornamental tree The wood is moderately hard. Roots yield a bright yellow dye. Fresh fruits are used to deal with ulcers, sores and syphilis. The bark and fruits have antimicrobial properties and used in cosmetics. Both ripe 5. and u

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uses: The wood is moderately hard. Roots yield a bright yellow dye. Fresh fruits are used to deal with ulcers, sores and syphilis. The bark and fruits have antimicrobial properties and used in cosmetics. Both ripe 5. and unripe fruits are poisonous to humans.
family: Bignoniaceae
synonym: Bignonia africana Lam., Crescentia pinnata Jacq. ×
description: Small trees, branches spreading. Leaves imparipinnate, opposite or three at a node, clustered towards the apex of branchlets; rachis 14-30 cm long, stout, swollen at the base; leaflets 5-9, opposite; × lamina 6-16 3-7 cm, obovate or oblong, base obliquely acute, round or cordate, apex obtuse and mucronate. Flowers bisexual, in 20-40 cm long axillary pendulous × panicles. Calyx 3 1.5 cm, campanulate, Th 2-lipped; corolla 6 cm across, dark purple with yellow stripes, campanulate; lobes 5. Stamens 4. Ovary superior, 1 cm, style 10 cm long; stigma broadly ovate. Fruit 30-45 × 8-15 cm, muddy brown, heavy, oblong- cylindrical, sausage-shaped, scurfy flakes present, indehiscent; seeds in fibrous pulp × in the fruit, hard, obovoid, 1 0.7 cm
native range: Tropical and Southern Africa
distribution: Widely planted in the tropics of
english names: Sausage tree · Cucumber in tree
flowering fruiting: Th roughout the year
occurrence maldives: Planted in office premises and homesteads as an ornamental tree