{"id":25967,"date":"2020-09-07T19:00:40","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T23:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=25967"},"modified":"2020-09-07T19:00:40","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T23:00:40","slug":"african-sausage-trees-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2020\/09\/07\/african-sausage-trees-in-florida.html","title":{"rendered":"African Sausage Trees in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

I grew up mostly in Florida, but never once heard that African Sausage Trees are a thing down there. This crossed my radar on account of yesterday’s search for “image142<\/a>“, which also turned up files such as “image1428<\/a>“. That produced this strange-to-me-looking image of a tree with what looked like blackened corn dogs growing on its branches.<\/p>\n

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African Sausage Tree<\/p><\/div>\n

Naturally enough I asked the searchies what I’m sure everyone does at least 181 times in their life: “do corn dogs grow on trees?<\/a>” This, through a series of less ludicrous suggestions, led to the possibility that these things were long neck avocados<\/a>. But their lack of a bulge where the big seed would be inside made that questionable.<\/p>\n

I asked some Facebook peeps, who offered up a couple of wrong guesses followed by a win from one who seemed to have been waiting his whole life to wield this piece of trivia.<\/p>\n

I did actually figure this out on my own before seeing that response the next day, though I don’t remember the search trail that got me there. Something about “very long fruits that grow on trees”, I think.<\/p>\n

This is an African Sausage Tree<\/a>, native to Africa but found in other places, including Florida. The sausage-shaped fruits are inedible. The image is from a batch of 1567 slides I bought on eBay a long time ago, from a Colorado family<\/a> that traveled a lot.<\/p>\n

Based on context<\/a> I take this image to be from somewhere around Flagler Beach.<\/p>\n

Here’s a pretty cool shot<\/a>,from the Nature Photography by Pam & Richard blog, shows some African Sausages in Vero Beach. This image, which highlights the distinctiveness of these fruit’s appearance, makes it all the more puzzling how I never heard of or saw any mention of these oddities while growing up in Florida. But you know, Florida is weird.<\/p>\n

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African Sausage Tree in Vero Beach, FL<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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