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Sausage tree is an extremely variable, semideciduous tree with a large, dense, spreading crown; it sometimes grows up to 23 metres tall but is usually smaller. The bole is sometimes crooked, it usually branches from low-down and can be 80cm in diameter.
==Uses==
{{Uses|Wound healing}}, {{Uses|Skin diseases}}, {{Uses|Venereal diseases}}, {{Uses|Diarrhea}}, {{Uses|Infertility}}, {{Uses|Jaundice}}, {{Uses|Leprosy}}, {{Uses|}}, {{Uses|}}, {{Uses|}}, {{Uses|}}.
==Parts Used==
{{Parts Used|StemBark}}, {{Parts Used|LeavesRoots}}, {{Parts Used|Fruits}}, {{Parts Used|RootsLeaves}}.
==Chemical Composition==
==Common names==
{{Common names|sa=|en=African sausage tree|gu=|hi=Balam kheera, jhar fanoos|kn=aanethoradu kaayi, mara sowthae|ks=|ml=|mr=|pa=|ta=Yanai pudukan|te=enuga thondamu, jijiliyaarnattu, kijili, naagamalle}}
==Properties==
==Identification==
===Leaf===
{{Leaf|Pinnate|Opposite|crowded near the ends of branches, compound, with 3-5 pairs of leaflets plus a terminal leaflet; leaflets oblong, up to 6 x 10 cm, leathery, roughly hairy on both surfaces, rather yellowish-green above, paler green below, apex broadly tapering to rounded; base square, asymmetric in the lateral leaflets, symmetric in the terminal leaflet; margin entire, sometimes obscurely toothed, wavy; the lower leaflets shortly petiolulate, the terminal pair without petiolules; petiole up to 15 cm long}}<ref name="Leaf"/>
===Flower===
{{Flower|Bisexual|Pendulous panicles|Flowers striking, dark maroon with heavy yellow veining on the outside,cup shaped, asymmetric, up to 15 cm across the mouth, unpleasant smelling; in 6- to 12-flowered, lax, pendulous sprays up to 90 cm long. Calyx shortly tubular with 2-5 ribbed lobes; corolla widely cup shaped with 5 broad spreading lobes; stamens 4, slightly protruding beyond the mouth of the corolla tube; ovary 1-chambered.|}}
===Fruit===
{{Fruit|Sausage shaped|45 cm long by 15 cm diameter||greyish-brown, heavily dotted with lenticels, indehiscent, heavy, weighing up to 12 kg, containing a fibrous pulp in which are embedded many seeds.||}}
===Other features===
==Commonly seen growing in areas==
{{Commonly seen|Tropical area}}, {{Commonly seen|Sub tropical area}}, {{Commonly seen|}}, {{Commonly seen|}}, {{Commonly seen|}}.
==Photo Gallery==
<gallery class="left" caption="" widths="140px" heights="140px">
File:Kigelia africana, loof, Voortrekkerbad.jpg|LeavesFile:Leaves I IMG 8996.jpg|LeavesFile:Kigelia pinnata (26089020311).jpg|FlowerFile:Kp Kigelia pinnata IMG 3481 (3073374485).jpg|FlowersFile:Kigelia africana01.jpg|Whole treeFile:Kigelia pinnata-- the Sausage Tree (26062896312).jpg|FruitsFile:Lamiaceae - Kigelia africana-1.jpg|FruitsFile:Seeds and husk of Kigelia africana.JPG|Seeds
</gallery>
<references>
<ref name="chemical compositionUses">["chemistry"https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329644505_Ethnopharmacology_and_pharmacology_of_Kigelia_africana_Lam_Benth Uses]</ref> <ref name="Leaf">["morphology"http://www.worldagroforestry.org/treedb/AFTPDFS/Kigelia_pinnata.PDF Botonic description]</ref> <ref name="How to plant/cultivateCommon names">[http://tropicalenvis.thefernsfrlht.infoorg/viewtropical.php?id=Kigelia+africana Cultivationbot_search Vernacular names]</ref>
</references>
==External Links==
* [http://jogindernursery.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=649]
* [ http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Kigelia+africana ]* [ http://nutrientjournal.com/sausage-tree-kigelia-africana-bark-extract-central-nervous-system-stimulant/]
[[Category:Herbs]]
