Despite its playful nickname, the "blue sausage fruit" has nothing to do with meat. Known as Decaisnea fargesii, it is a shrub found in mountain forests and shaded ravines stretching across western ...

There are 500 kinds of Eucalyptus, and 900 species of Dendrobium orchids. But there’s only one species of Kigelia: K. africana, known as the sausage tree. Among nature’s wonders, this semi-deciduous ...