Sausage Tree, African Sausage Tree, Cucumber Tree
Kigelia africana · Bignoniaceae · 아프리카키겔리아
Look
- Leaves
- Odd-pinnate compound leaves, once pinnate, with 7 to 11 elliptic to oblong leaflets (about 20 cm long and 6 cm wide).
- Flowers
- Deep red to purple flowers (5 to 10 cm long) open in the evening and last only one night; hawkmoths and fruit bats have been observed visiting.
- Fruit
- Sausage-shaped woody fruits (25 to 50 cm long, 7.5 to 15 cm wide) ripen gray-brown and can weigh up to 10 kg; they stay closed and hang on the tree for up to a year, then release hard, oval seeds 0.1 to 0.7 cm across as they rot.
- Bark
- Gray bark peels in thin pieces; the trunk diameter reaches 0.6 m.
Where it grows
- Native to
- Native to Africa.
- Ecology
- In Africa, elephants and rhinoceroses eat the fruit and disperse the seeds.
Sources
- 국립수목원 국가표준식물목록(KPNI 웹 조회)
- NParks Flora&Fauna Web — Kigelia africana
- Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder — Kigelia africana
- SANBI PlantZAfrica(남아공 국립생물다양성연구소)
- World Agroforestry(ICRAF) Agroforestree Database 4.0 (Orwa et al. 2009) — Kigelia pinnata (K. africana)
- National Tropical Botanical Garden(미국 국립열대식물원) 식물 데이터베이스 — Kigelia africana