Sausage Tree

Fruit  6/18/2008  Flamingo Gardens, Davie

Flower on tree 10'1/2012 Constitution Park, Deerfield Beach

Flowers dropped 10/1/2012 Constitution Park

Sausage Tree = Kigelia pinnata
Family: Bignoniaceae
Origin: Tropical Africa

Large tree to 50 feet, its sausage-like fruit
often up to 2 feet longand 6" in diameter.
Flowers are wine red.
The leaves fall once a year but are replaced in 10 days