Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Sausage Tree or Kigelia africana
According to our guide, when the fruit of the sausage tree falls to the ground, it rots and ferments. Animals eat the rotting fruit. Because the rotting fruit ferments under the heat of the tropical sun, turning the sugars into alcohol, the animals get drunk off of eating the fermented fruit.
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