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Kigelia
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Kigelia 

a genus of plants of the family Bignoniaceae, found in tropical Africa. The sausage tree (Kigelia pinnata) is an attractive tree with a broad, shady crown; there is leaf fall during the dry season. The flowers, which blossom either before or during the opening of the leaves, are large and red. They are pollinated by sunbirds. The fruits, which hang from the branches on long stems and resemble liver sausages (up to 60 cm long), impart a particularly strange appearance to the plant.



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The cream contains Green Coffee Extract, Seaweed, Kola, Centella Asiatica, Azelaic Acid, Niacin, Elastin and Kigelia Africana.
Another ingredient of focus is Kigelia africana, the African sausage tree, which demonstrates a number of properties relevant to the skin care markets, including strong anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial properties, as well as key skin firming and tightening effects.
Kigelia africana - botanists actually call it the sausage tree - sprouts hard seed pods 12 to 16 inches long that look and feel like salamis and overgrown bratwursts.
 
 
 
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