Sausage tree

Description:

The tree can be easily spotted by the large woody fruits that are sausage-shaped. The flowers are beautiful in an attractive deep red and with an unpleasant smell.

Notes:

The 'sausages' cannot be eaten but the skin is ground to a pulp and used externally for medicine. Its most important use is for the cure of skin ailments especially skin cancers. The fruit is burnt to ashes and pounded by a mortar with oil and water to make a paste to apply to the skin.