A tropical African tree with red bell-shaped flowers and large pendulous sausage-shaped fruits.
吊灯树
Kigelia pinnata, family Bignoniaceae
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There are, of course, sumptuous touches: the tents are filled with antique furniture, the beds are dressed in crisp, white linen and the raised dining area is built around a sausage tree.
Along the banks grew knob thorns, sausage trees, vegetable ivory, ilala palms, mangoes, wild figs, tamarinds and mahogany, as well as the ubiquitous acacia.
It was dotted with extraordinary trees like the baobab with its thick knotty trunk and root-like branches and the sausage tree which bears fruit that look exactly like huge hanging bratwursts.
Guests are accommodated in very comfortable and substantial riverside lodges, built on stilts, and each named for the nearest tree - acacia, leadwood, sausage tree, and so on.
How clever we thought we were, as we avoided setting up under a sausage tree: if a fruit from that drops off and hits you on the head, the result can be terminal.