Kigelia africana (Lam.) Benth.

🌿 Common Name: Sausage Tree, Balam khira (बालम खीरा )

IUCN Status

Least Concern : Least Concern
  • Bignonia africana , Tecoma africana, Kigelia africana subsp. africana, Crescentia pinnata
  • Cultivated
  • Kigelia africana with fruits
    Kigelia africana with fruits
    Tree tall up to 10 meter. Leaves 9-20 cm long, rachis ribbed, tomentose or sparsely so; leaflets 5-9, ovate-oblong to elliptic-ovate, 5-11 x 3-5.5 cm, coriaceous, scabrid, entire, acute or retuse, mucronate, base often oblique, midrib and veins prominent on undersurface, strigose.
  • Inflorescence and flowers
    Inflorescence and flowers

Plant Phenological Events

Month Phenological Events
March 🌼 Flowering
April 🌼 Flowering

Systematic position

DivisionAngiosperms
ClassDicotyledons
Sub-ClassGamopetalae
Seriesbicarpellatae
OrdPERSONALES
FamilyBIGNONIACEAE
SpeciesKigelia africana (Lam.) Benth.
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