Weekly Garden Highlight: Sausage Tree (Kigelia africana) - South Coast Botanic Garden Foundation
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Did you know sausages grow on trees? Well, not the kind of sausage you have for breakfast, but the sausage tree (Kigelia africana) produces sausage-like fruit and deep red, tulip-shaped flowers. The sausages hang from the branches and usually grow 1 to 2 feet long. Sometimes the sausages can grow to be 3
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Kigelia pinnata, Sausage Tree
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Kigelia africana- the sausage tree! - Katherine Wagner-Reiss
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What's Blooming in the Garden: Week of August 22 - South Coast
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Sausage tree hi-res stock photography and images - Alamy
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1977 - Tree Society of Zimbabwe
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Plants, Free Full-Text
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Kigelia Africana - Sausage Tree Fruit – IDSeeds Farm
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Uncategorized Archives - Page 4 of 4 - South Coast Botanic Garden
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Uncategorized Archives - Page 4 of 4 - South Coast Botanic Garden
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Uncategorized Archives - Page 4 of 4 - South Coast Botanic Garden
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Weekly Garden Highlight: Sausage Tree (Kigelia africana) - South
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Sausage Tree at the Lincoln Park Conservatory - Lincoln Park
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The Gardens Magazine - Summer 2022-23, Issue 135 by foundation
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Kigelia africana sausage tree in hi-res stock photography and
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Tropical Sausage Tree (kigelia africana) – Urban Tropicals