About Liver Sausage Tree

The liver sausage tree (Kigelia africana) is originally from west Africa. It is today however in completely Africa common.

It becomes about 18 m highly and has a broad, shade-PEND-ends crown. The crust is smooth with younger trees, with old against it drops the crust like sheds.It carries for him the typical, up to a meter of long fleshy, sausage-similar fruits. Their surface is strongly roughened up. Since the fruits contain much water, they can have a weight between five to eight kg. Into fibrous fruit Mark numerous seeds are embedded. Unreife of fruits are particularly poisonous. Fruits mature against it for beer brewing are used and/or during hunger emergencies also eaten.The large variant-rich blooms have a diameter of approximately 13 cm. Their colors are enough of kastanienbraun over wine-red, lilagelb to brown violet with yellow strips or dark red points. The blooms produce, if they open in the evening, a considerable quantity of Nektar, which flows for humans an unpleasant smell. The bats however are attracted by this smell and dust so the Type on the next morning are often already withered the blooms and to serve the shrub pigs and as food.