Bignoniaceae
Sausage tree
Kigelia africana
- Family
- Bignoniaceae
- Genus
- Kigelia
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Common names
By language (40)
- Afrikaans
- Worsboom
- Arabic
- كجلة أفريقية
- arz
- كجله افريقيه
- Bambara
- Sinjanba
- Belarusian
- Каўбаснае дрэва
- Bulgarian
- Колбасово дърво
- Cantonese
- 吊瓜樹
- Catalan
- Arbre de les botifarres, Arbre de les salsitxes
- Chinese
- 吊灯树, 吊燈樹, 吊瓜树, 腊肠树
- Croatian
- Kigelija
- Czech
- Kigélie africká
- dag
- Laŋgandili
- din
- Rual
- English
- Sausage tree
- Esperanto
- Kolbasarbo
- ff
- Gillaahi
- Finnish
- Makkarapuu
- French
- Arbre à saucisses
- Georgian
- Ძეხვის ხე
- German
- Leberwurstbaum
- Hebrew
- קיגליה אפריקנית, עץ הנקניק, קיגליה מנוצה
- Hindi
- क्कीग्गॅळीआ आफ़्ऱीक्काण्
- Hungarian
- Kolbászfa
- Indonesian
- Pohon Sosis
- Japanese
- ソーセージノキ
- Kannada
- ಕಿಗೇಲಿಯಾ ಆಫ್ರಿಕಾ ನ
- Kinyarwanda
- Ikivungovongo
- kw
- Kigelia
- lah
- کگلیا
- Lithuanian
- Kigelija
- Malayalam
- ശിവകുണ്ഡലം
- Marathi
- आफ्रिकन सॉसेज ट्री
- Persian
- درخت سوسیس
- Portuguese
- Kigelia
- Russian
- Колбасное дерево
- Sanskrit
- क्किगेलिअ अफ़्रिकन
- Swahili
- Mvungunya
- Swedish
- Korvträd
- Tamil
- மரச் சுரைக்காய்
- Thai
- ไส้กรอกแอฟริกา
Synonyms
- Bignonia africana Lam.
- Kigelia tristis A.Chev.
- Sotor aethiopiumm Fenzl
- Tecoma africana (Lam.) G.Don
- Tripinna africana Voigt
- Tripinnaria africana Spreng.
Flowers
- In flower
- April, August to November (from 237 flowering iNaturalist observations worldwide)
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Tree
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Puerto Rico: introduced
Photos
FlowerPhoto: Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Dave U, CC BY-SA 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Justin Ponder, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Lucy Keith-Diagne, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Delince, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Wynand Uys, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Delince, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Diogo Luiz, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Photographs: Ettore Balocchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Seig, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist
Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.