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Kigelia africana (Lam.) Benth., Niger Fl. 463 1849. (Syn. Crescentia pinnata Jacq.; Kigelia pinnata (Jacq.) DC. ….);
. Sausage Tree, Common Sausage Tree • Hindi: बलम खीरा Balam khira, झाड़ फ़ानूस Jhar fanoos • Kannada: Aanethoradu Kaayi, Mara Sowthae • Telugu: Enuga thondamu, Kijili, Naagamalle;
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Native to: sub-Saharan tropical Africa to South Africa
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ky-GEL-ee-uh — Latinized form of the Mozambican Bantu name, kigeli-keia … Dave’s Botanary • Wikipedia
af-ri-KAHN-uh — of or from Africa … Dave’s Botanary . Evergreen tree reaching 12 m in height; Leaves opposite, pinnate compound; leaflets 5-9, leathery, elliptic to ovate-oblong, up to 10 cm long, entire, strigose beneath; Flowers brick red, 7-9 cm long, 6-8 cm broad, in lax pendulous panicles; calyx campanulate, leathery, irregularly lobed; corolla tube cylindric, limb 6-8 cm broad, 2-lipped, lower lip deflexed, 3-lobed; stamens 4, didynamous; fruit gourd like, up to 50 cm long, hanging from long cord-like stalks.
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American Indians used to treat Skin malignancy with its juice;
The fruit, while not palatable for humans, is popular with hippos, baboons, and giraffes;
Mainly grown as a curiosity and ornamental, both for its beautiful deep red flowers and its strange fruit;
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FJ8 031113 : Attachments (2). 2 posts by 2 authors. This is the Sausage tree, Kigelia africana.
The fruit shape is weird here…
Paschim Medinipur : Kigelia africana (Lam.) Benth. : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (7). To see the open flowers, we must visit the tree at night.. Thank you Sir for all the inputs. Yes Sir, when I reached the place in the morning the flowers were already on the ground!
Kigelia africana (Lam.) Benth from Aligarh, UP : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (10).
Attached images may be Kigelia africana (Lam.) Benth collected from Aligarh Muslim University Campus, Aligarh (UP). Please validate.
Date :07.04.2014
Location: Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) Campus, Aligarh (UP)
Family : Bignoniaceae
Genus & species : Kigelia africana (Lam.) Benth
Habitat: Grows inside the AMU campus
Habit : Tree Nicely composed pics …       It is my pleasure to share few images of Kigelia africana (Bignoniaceae) Habit: Tree. Habitat: Cultivated. Sighting: Chikmagalur and Bangalore, Karnataka about 1000 msl and 800 msl respectively. Date: 14-05-2014, 16-06-2015, 07-02-2015, 09-02-2015 and 12-02-2015. wonderful. you must have got to the tree early morning before the flowers close or fall off. at least that’s my experience when i get to the gardens where they are growing in Bengal. i end up taking pictures of flowers fallen. i love this set
    Fwd: [efloraofindia:238605] identifying these road side tree : 3 posts by 1 author.
Can someone help in identifying these road side tree.
Since last three years, Its not flowering only leaves. Its about 12 ft in evergreen trees. I agree with Kigelia Thanks … Along the road side, bank of Narmada. I also show many trees of well grown Kigelia pinnata Looks like Kigelia pinnata (Sausage Tree). Kigelia africana is a strong possibility
Location: Bali, Indonesia
Altitude:30 ft.
Date: 11 June 2014
Kigelia africana (Lam.) Benth. : 8 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (2)
Location: Kolkata, India
Date: 8 September 2017
Elevation : 25 ft.
It looks Kigelia pinnata Bignoniaceae. Synonym.
Which location in Kolkata …? Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden Location: Lal Bagh, Bangalore, India
Altitude: 3000 ft.
Date: 29 October 2014
Habit: Cultivated
Attachments (2)
. Location: Bali, Indonesia
Altitude:30 ft.
Date: 11 June 2014                                       
Kigelia pinnata-African Sausage Tree – indiantreepix | Google Groups
sunbird with kigelia pinnata: – The bird looks like a female of Purple Rumped Sunbird. The plant is actually Kigelia africana (syn: Kigelia pinnata). It happens to be a bat pollinated tree and it is pollinated during evenings. I imagine if the sunbird female was lured by something inside the flower!!
Kigelia africana: It is most often found fallen on ground because the flowers bloom at night and bats pollinate it. And by the weight of these bats, the corolla usually fall off leaving the gynoecium on the floral stalk.
efloraindia: 011011 BRS 49: Yes Kigelia africana (Lam.) Benth. of Bignoniaceae family is the new name and Kigelia pinnata is a synonym now
Date/Time- 12:00 Noon Location- Place, Altitude, GPS- Wardha, 20* 44′ 39.15″ N – 78* 36′ 09.58″ Habitat- Garden/ Urban/ Wild/ Type- District Court Plant Habit- Tree/ Shrub/ Climber/ Herb- Tree Height/Length- 50′ high tree Leaves Type/ Shape/ Size- Photo attached Inflorescence Type/ Size- Flowers Size/ Colour/ Calyx/ Bracts- 1.5″ ~ 3″/ Redish Fruits Type/ Shape/ Size Seeds- Other Information like Fragrance, Pollinator, Uses etc.- No Fragrance Looks like Kigelia africana ( Family: Bignoniaceae)?? agreed………it is commanly known as balamkhira, a member of bignoniaceae family Yes Syn. Kigellia pinnata
… sausage tree, Kigelia africana ? …, Sausage tree’s fruits look like cucumber, this one looks different. I think … identification is correct. Such variations in fruits are seen. For e.g. check the link also the angle of camera to the fruit will make it look short and stumpy, not longish if the maker is kind-a standing under the fruit!!! I am also in favor of Kigellia africana.
Land owner planted this tree thinking it’s Cashew nut tree.
May I request you to please help in ID this tree.
Height about 25 feet and tree is about 20 yrs old.
Flower stems hanging from the tree. Pictures attached. its Kigelia (i , not a second l) africana Its Kigelia pinnata It’s found in Central Africa near riverside.
God knows how it landed in India and that too in nurseries. I agree with … It is Kigelia pinnata. American Indians used to treat Skin malignancy with its juice.
ky-GEL-ee-uh — Latinized form of the Mozambican Bantu name, kigeli-keia … Dave’s Botanary • Wikipedia
af-ri-KAHN-uh — of or from Africa … Dave’s Botanary commonly known as: sausage tree Native to: sub-Saharan tropical Africa to South Africa References: Flowers of India • Wikipedia • Kew RBG avenue tree at Vaghbil on 30 OCT 10
  Bignoniaceae Week :: :: Kigelia africana at Mumbai:: PKA17:
The mature fruits dangle from the long stalks like giant sausages. They may be up to two feet long and weigh up to 6.8 kg. The flowers are seen hanging from the tree while they haven’t opened. After they open, they fall off quite soon.
The fruit, while not palatable for humans, is popular with hippos, baboons, and giraffes.
Mainly grown as a curiosity and ornamental, both for its beautiful deep red flowers and its strange fruit.
http://dl.dropbox.com/Sausage%20Tree.html Beautiful Depiction of different aspects       Bignoniaceae Week : : UD 006 : : Kigella pinnata from Victoria memorial grounds Kolkata: Kigella pinnata from Victoria memorial grounds Kolkata These are planted planned gardens, so this is obviously planted, about 40 years ago… Well couldn’t be naturalized, its native of Africa…
But what pulled us to this tree was this huge fruit , all wrinkled up and when we managed to open it, it was rotting with lots of seeds inside… not one of them looked healthy..
And the flowers .. smelled sort of… not pleasant, fallen of course … they open at night and fall off in the morning…
The green canopy is dense, looking up one sees these whorls of leaves…
Bark is smoothish, greyish and being Bengal hosts moss and lichen… Nice depiction …
Bignoniaceae Week :: :: Kigelia africana from Pichandikulam- Pondichery. BRS10:
Bignoniaceae week :: Nonnatives: SMP: Kigelia africana : Pune/Chennai:
   Bignoniaceae Week: Kigelia africana from Delhi : Syn: Bignonia africana Lam.; Crescentia pinnata Jacq.; Kigelia pinnata (Jacq.) Rev. Bign.
Common names: Sausage tree
Evergreen tree reaching 12 m in height; Leaves opposite, pinnate compound; leaflets 5-9, leathery, elliptic to ovate-oblong, up to 10 cm long, entire, strigose beneath; Flowers brick red, 7-9 cm long, 6-8 cm broad, in lax pendulous panicles; calyx campanulate, leathery, irregularly lobed; corolla tube cylindric, limb 6-8 cm broad, 2-lipped, lower lip deflexed, 3-lobed; stamens 4, didynamous; fruit gourd like, up to 50 cm long, hanging from long cord-like stalks.
Commonly planted along roadsides and parks in Delhi.    Bignoniaceae Week : : UD 008 : : Kigelia pinnata Magnificent old tree from the Hort:
There is this magnificent old tree at the edge of the grand lawn at the horticulture garden Kolkata Kigella pinnata A Magnificent old tree from the Hort
This tree is about 60 years old or may be older…
By Novermber its bare almost , all leaves fall off, leaving a startling appearance with these thisk big elongated pods still hanging on…Fallen pods liter the lawn
Each about 8 to 10 inches long from this tree (the one at Victoria memorial makes pods about 12 to 14 inches long, sometimes even longer)
The pods here were so fresh the day I took these pictures, the surface fuzz was still fresh and velvety to the touch..
Does anyone know why would a hard walled seed pod need to grow fuzz on its surface???
Interesting fruits…We call these Balam Khira … nice photo set, especially the pods’ pictures. Many thanks for sharing.
efloraofindia:”For Id 25042013MR1’’ is this tree Kigelia africana at Pune : Attachments (2). 11 posts by 5 authors.
Jan 2013 Bund garden road Pune medium ht tree with fruits. no flowers were seen. Kindly validate if this tree is Kigelia africana? Yes it is. The flowering is over and the tree is in fruiting stage at most places in Pune.
Kigellia africana also called as ‘Sausage tree’ due to the huge sausage like fruits. (Seen here) Family : Bignoniaceae. Yes … It is African Sausage. U seem to have missed the flowers in last month. Bright maroon coloured flowers of this tree bloom at night. Look very beautiful but smells very foul. U can photograph them early morning around 6.00-6.30 am. Locally in marathi they are known as “वाघूळ फूल” as the pollination is carried out by bats. I m attaching a flower image taken near my house in Versova, Mumbai. Many thanks for your msg. The pix of the flowers you have captured are really very beautiful. Nice name in Marathi too. The label to the image says Hatti Ladoo Jhaad. does it mean हत्ती लाडू झाड़ ? any particular reason for this name? Thanks for all the info about this tree Thanks … for the name वाघूळ फूल (vaghul phul) and thanks … for discussing हत्ती लाडू झाड़ (hatti ladoo jhaad). The Hatti Ladoo Jhad name seems to be derived from the almost foot long fruits that it bears. It remembles like the ragi balls fed to domesticated elephants. Yes …. Searching of names of plants leads us to search for HOWs and WHYs … almost always very interesting sessions.
Fwd: KIGELLIA PINNATA : 7 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (2)
I saw this plant for the first time at Pachmarhi in 1975. Hindi name JHAD FANOOS is quite appropriate as the arrangement of flowers resembles chandelier.
Attaching two collages of this plant. Forest department must have planted these on the road side of Cooch Behar.
some of them are blooming now. Common name is SAUSAGE TREE.
very nice. its interesting that its growing by a roadside. the fruits grow to be very big, (see below)
I wonder what do these neighborhood folks do with the fruits or seeds?
we have several in the kolkata area
one is famous one in victoria memorial grounds on the northeast corner lawn
another in the large army garden enclave in the salt lake area
another i think i saw in the horticulture garden and of course the shibpur botanical garden
i have not yet seen it outside of a deliberate planting, at least in Calcutta
the fully grown fruits get very big (the leaf here is from a nearby other tree)
thats a size 8 shoe = 9.5 inches long
in victoria memorial garden lawn
i believe its a fruit from the year before
the tree still only had buds for that current year
It also called balamkhira and hakims say that Balamkhira bana de pet ko heera. It is used for stomach ailments way to go. thanks for telling us. how is it used? do you know?
the seeds or the bark? Its seeds are dried and grind to make powder. This powder is used with luke warm water. . Kigelia africana from near Hemavati Reservoir Hassan-GS11022022-2: 5 very high res. images.
Kigelia africana photographed from near Hemavati Reservoir Hassan, 25-9-2015. The ID is correct. It is an avenue tree here. Seen on a nearby street. . Help with identification of this tree: 4 images. Most probably a planted tree, must be Kigelia africana (Lam.) Benth., the sausage tree or cucumber tree. Yes
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