Sausage Tree, Kigelia Pinnata Plant

Description

Description

Plant these captivating evergreen plants and make your garden space quintessential. Kidelia Africana, also known as sausage tree, is a highly variable monospecific genus of the Bignoniaceae family. The plants have a smooth, gray-brown stout bark trunk, rounded to the spreading crown. Sausage Tree blooms blood-red flowers on long, thread stalks that hang from the limbs of the tree.

The fruit looks like large sausages dangling from the tree and droops down from the long stalks. 

This plant is native to riverbanks, floodplains, open woodlands, and savannas throughout African and has a variety of medicinal uses. Sausage Tree typically grows to 50 to 60 cm tall and blooms dark red flowers. It doesn’t require much maintenance and care to thrive.

Sausage Tree Special Features

• The tree blooms large, wrinkled, maroon, or dark red trumpet-shaped flowers.
• The fruits of the tree look like giant sausages.
• The plant is rich in medicinal properties.
• It is a low maintenance plant.

Sausage Tree Uses

Ornamental Use

• The lovely glossy dark green foliage added with the fantastic flowers and fruits 
• makes it a great ornamental tree. 

 Medicinal Uses. 

• The cytotoxic effects of the plant are used to treat cancer cells and diseases caused by microorganisms.
• It is used in several skin products.

Planting and Care

• This plant grows well in full sunlight but can also survive in sunset zones.
• Keep the plant away from frost.
• Sausage Trees need well-drained soil composed of clay, loam, and mulch.
• Water the plants weekly and make sure to keep the water off the leaves.
• Water the plant moderately.
• Never overwater your plant.
• Water stagnation must be avoided in all cases.
• Make sure the roots of the plant are damp but not too wet.
• Water the soil immediately after using the fertilizer.
• Knock off the old soil from the plant root by removing all rotted and dead roots.
• These plants are relatively pest-free