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Accession Data:

Kigelia africana (Lam.) Benth.

  • Common Name: Sausage Tree
  • Family: Bignoniaceae Juss.

  • Country of Origin: tropical Africa
  • Habitat:

  • Uses: A strong antioxidant that shows potential for treating liver disease.
  • Culture: flowers are self infertile and will need to be cross pollinated by hand at night, blooms during the dry season1
  • USDA Zone: 10b-11

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 200900059
  • Source: Bobby Rak - Yale Marsh Gardens (seed)
  • Provenance: Seed provided by Bobby Rak (Yale Marsh Gardens) ex Banana Tree Seeds.
  • Accession Date: 08-20-2009
  • Bench: 1109 - AFR:Ground Bed 1 SW
    • Currently: active - needs attention
    • Qty: 1 confirmed on 10-03-2017

Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Magnoliopsida
  • SubClass: euasterid I
  • Order: Lamiales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Bignoniaceae
  • SubFamily:
  • Tribe: Tecomeae
  • SubTribe:

References (internal):

  • Medicinal Plants
  • Plants with Extrafloral Nectaries
  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Benin / Burkina / Gambia, The / Ghana / Guinea / Ivory Coast / Liberia / Mali / Nigeria / Niger / Senegal / Sierra Leone / Togo / Burundi / Central African Republic / Cameroon / Congo / Gabon / Gulf of Guinea Is. / Rwanda / Zaire / Chad / Eritrea / Ethiopia / Somalia / Sudan / Kenya / Tanzania / Uganda / Angola / Malawi / Mozambique / Zambia / Zimbabwe / Botswana / Caprivi Strip / Namibia / KwaZulu-Natal / Swaziland / Northern Provinces /

References (external):

  1. Pollinating Sausage Trees
  2. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. LAst accessed 29 September 2015.
  3. WCSP (2015). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed 29 September 2015.

data regenerated on Tue, 17 Oct 2017 08:34:24 -0400

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Current Accessions in the Bignoniaceae

Subfamily
Tribe Bignonieae

  • Adenocalymma comosum
  • Bignonia magnifica
  • Clytostoma callistegioides
  • Dolichandra unguis-cati
  • Pyrostegia venusta

Subfamily
Tribe Crescentieae

  • Crescentia cujete

Subfamily
Tribe Tecomeae

  • Delostoma integrifolium
  • Kigelia africana
  • Pandorea jasminoides
  • Podranea ricasoliana
  • Spathodea campanulata
  • Tecoma capensis
  • Tecoma stans
  • Tecomanthe dendrophila
W/C = Wild Collected
= indicates flowering in past 10 days
= images available for this accession
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