All plants & seeds now
available are listed
here
Live Plants
Live Plants
Sausage Tree
Kigelia pinnata or Kigelia africana
click pic to enlarge
Among the coolest specimen trees is the world famous Sausage Tree. The fruits hang down and look like giant salami sausages Sausages can be two feet long and weight up to 15 pounds each If you have never seen a Sausage Tree live, up close, just imagine the impact of seeing clusters of sausages dangling in the breeze People don't eat the sausage fruits, but hippos, baboons, elephants and giraffes do But wait. This fine tropical evergreen tree from West Africa also has amazing fragrant flowers. Candelabra flower clusters, like the sausage fruits, descend from ropelike stalks Below, view immature flowers soon to open This is exciting. But there's more. In the night, the flowers open showing a deep red inflorescence that is both fragrant and beautiful The sausage tree boasts long, open sprays of large, maroon or dark red trumpet-shaped flowers that are velvety on the inside and that virtually overflow with nectar. In South Florida, flowering begins approximately August and continues for several months After pollination, where flowers were, baby sausages appear Easy to grow in zone 10, the Sausage Tree tops out at 30-40 feet. Your sausage tree will grow quickly and easily in most plain soils A fine specimen shade tree which includes the triple bonus of (1) amazing sausages, (2) top-of-the-line blooms + (3) fragrance Sausage Tree summary:
If you have a landscape location suitable to shown off this amazing tropical specimen, get your own exclusive Sausage Tree Plants offered today are in pots and most look like this picture ...leafy with nice trunk wood Sausage Tree is very rare and very hard to find Only a few are available to ship You may have your own very exclusive specimen Sausage Tree live plant for only $32.50 plus postage & packing
For pre-purchase PayPal information, click
here As always, you receive complete care info
To pay by check, please click here |