Sausage Tree - Kigelia africana

Image Source: Bernard Dupont (Wiki Commons)

Image Source: Bernard Dupont (Wiki Commons)

• Native to Africa.
• Odd fruit is made into black dye.
• Fruit looks like "sausages" which hang in clusters from long stems suspended from its branches.
• Fruit is green a first, but then turns brown.
• Inedible fruit that reaches 3 ft. long and weigh up to 15 pounds.
• Blooms at night bearing purple flowers with an unpleasant smell, but then closes up at morning.

    Source: (Majesty I, 1982)

• Can grow up to 50 ft. in height.
  
• Good drought, moderate wind, and poor salt tolerances. 

    ​Source: (Rauch, 2000)