Sausage tree
ಕಿಗೇಲಿಯಾ ಆಫ್ರಿಕಾ ನक्कीग्गॅळीआ आफ़्ऱीक्काण्மரச் சுரைக்காய்
Kigelia africana (Lam.) Benth.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 17 m
- wide
- 18 m
Bignoniaceae
Also called Bologna Sausage Tree, Bologna Sausagetree, Fetishbean, German Sausage Tree, German-Sausage Tree
Formerly Bignonia africana, Tecoma africana
When it flowers
Flowers July to April in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Trop. & S. AfricaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from Top Tropicals and World Plants, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 15 m to 18 mRead from World Plants, one source
- Spread
- 15 m to 20 mRead from World Plants, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Top Tropicals, one source
- Flowers
- Orange, red, purple, greenRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -1.1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from Top Tropicals and World Plants, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
Grow it with
Suggested by a rule, not by a gardener: same climate (kew), flowering when this plant does not (inaturalist), and a different shape.
Apple-of-PeruFlowers May to June, when this does not
Arabian jasmineFlowers May to June, when this does not
Barbados lilyFlowers May to June, when this does not
Billygoat weedFlowers May to June, when this does not
Black-eyed Susan vineFlowers May to June, when this does not
Blue dazeFlowers May to June, when this does not
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Árbol de las salchichas, Salchichón del diablo (El Salvador), Salchicha
- root
- N'vunguti, moporoto, Muveve
- German
- Leberwurstbaum, Wurstbaum
- French
- Arbre à saucisses, saucissonier
- Afrikaans
- Worsboom, kalabasboom, komkommerboom
- Italian
- albero delle salsicce
- Swedish
- Korvträd
- Finnish
- makkarapuu
- Czech
- kigélie zpeřená
- Indonesian
- Pohon Sosis
- Chinese (China)
- 吊灯树, 吊瓜树, 羽叶吊瓜
- Chinese
- 臘腸樹, 吊灯树, 吊瓜树
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Top Tropicals, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- World Plants, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Kigelia africana (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.