SAUSAGE TREE #1 (Bangla = কিজেলিয়া )

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Fruits looking like oversized Sausage hang from a tree.

Kigelia africana
Family Bignoniaceae
Gene Joyner's Unbelievable Acres Botanical Garden, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA.
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ALL ABOUT SAUSAGE TREE
kigeliashop.com/sausage-tree/
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Note: The Scientific Name had since been changed from Kigelia pinnata to Kigelia africana.
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MEDICINAL USES IN BANGLADESH

"Prof Mostafizur Rahman, a teacher of Crops Botany Department of Mymenshingh Agriculture University, has made success towards producing saplings of a rare medicinal tree. There are three Kigelia trees in South Asia, two of them on Rangpur Carmichael College campus. The two trees are 88 year-old. Fluid of its bark is useful in treatment of skin cancer.

All earlier efforts at Carmichael College botany laboratory for germination of its seeds failed, Associate Professor Hafiz Mollah told this correspondent. Prof Mostafizur Rahman came to Rangpur and took some seeds from the plant to BAU. After several experiments, his efforts for germination of the seeds became successful at BAU laboratory, Prof Molla said.

Prof Molla, a student of Prof Mostafizur Rahman, said he could not become successful in germination of the seeds at the college laboratory due to lack of adequate equipment and facilities. Prof Mustafizur Rahman will plant the saplings on Carmichael College compound soon, he said.

Kigelia bears clourful flowers and fruits weighing about two kilograms each. Lord Baron Tomas Carmichael planted several saplings of the trees on the roadside at the entrance of the college when he had laid foundation of Carmichael College in 1916.

Prof Kalim Uddin Mondol, a former teacher of Carmichael College and a renowned homeopathic Doctor in the district said experiment done in London by pharmacist Peter Hoten proved that the fluid from the bark and roots of Kigelia can cure skin cancer called Malignant Melanoma in human body."
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Distribution in Bangladesh

"The tree is said to have been distributed in the sub-continent by the seeds obtained from a single fruit that was washed ashore to Bombay. Thomas David Baron Carmichael [not Baron Toamas Carmichael] the then Governor of undivided Bengal planted some saplings of Kigelia probably on 10th Day of December 1916, the same day the foundation stone of Carmichael College was laid by him. Two trees within the compound of the college still bear the memory of Lord Carmichael"
(Mustaque Quadry , Daily Star, 28. 05. 04).
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Taken in: United States / Florida / Greenacres City (show map)

Taken on: April 5, 2008

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